Various Burns Suppers, ceilidhs and similar celebrations take place around the city to celebrate the birth date of Scotland's National Bard, Rabbie Burns.

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These are the original words to Robert Burns' Address to a Haggis, written in 1786, which people like to read out on Burns night before plunging a knife into the beastie and serving it up with neeps and tatties.