Alloway

Burns’ birthplace in Alloway is now a public museum, and significant 19th-century monuments to him stand in Alloway and Edinburgh.

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Scottish poet and lyricist born in Alloway, Ayrshyr, Scotland.

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He was also taught by John Murdoch (1747-1824), who opened an ‘adventure school’ in Alloway in 1763 and taught Latin, French, and mathematics to both Robert and his brother Gilbert (1760-1827) from 1765 to 1768 until Murdoch left the parish.

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland, the eldest of the seven children of William Burness (1721-1784) (Robert Burns spelled his surname Burness until 1786), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar, The Mearns, and Agnes Broun (1732-1820), the daughter of a tenant farmer from Kirkoswald, South Ayrshire.

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

English officer whom Wyatt had called Alloway, was a man of middle years, heavily built.

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"The ghaists and howlets that nightly cry about the ruins o 'Alloway's auld haunted kirk" rose on every imagination.

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FT Alphaville With ECB executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi warning Tuesday that a restructuring of Greece's debts could bring the banking system to its knees, Tracy Alloway 's post on FT Alphaville might prove timely.

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I'd been at Alloway on business - to help launch the Scottish Federation of Housing Association's (who I work for) Year of the Home Coming initiative at Burns Cottage, on the very day of his 250th.

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Alloway cites JPMorgan 's Peter Elwin 's analysis on how banks could minimize losses from any Greek debt restructuring.

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