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Well educated and extremely literate from a young age, Burns’ romantic life is sometimes better known than his poetry. Tam O’Shanter and Auld Lang Syne are two of his most popular works. Homecoming Scotland 2009 events will celebrate and remember his achievements. Come to Scotland during Homecoming Scotland 2009 (25 January-30 November 2009) and learn to love haggis just as Burns does. Hint: read Address to a Haggis before you come…

Many would say that Burns was marching to his own drum. He wrote about politics, sexuality, the kirk (church)together with republicanism and poverty.

Robert Burns was born and grew up in Ayrshire. He was the eldest of seven children, but this seems not to have deterred him from having a large family himself. He had children with several different partners.

However, the Edinburgh literary crowd were keen to sentimentalise his Scots dialect poems. Burns’ poems are credited with inspiring the Romantic poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. And Burns has been deemed so important and iconic that Scotland’s second national day is on his birthday, 25 January.

Homecoming Scotland 2009 starts on 25 January 2009 and finishes on St Andrews Day, 30 April 2009. Looking for Homecoming Scotland apartments in Edinburgh and Edinburgh self-catering accommodation: see our full list of apartments in Edinburgh.