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Burns Night 2025: Scottish Celebration Guide

December 26, 20247 min read

Celebrate Burns Night on January 25th with haggis, whisky, poetry recitals, and traditional Scottish festivities.

Burns Night: Celebrating Scotland's Bard

Burns Night on January 25th celebrates the life and poetry of Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scotland's national poet. It's a beloved tradition worldwide.

Burns Night 2025

  • Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025
  • Robert Burns' birthday
  • Celebrated globally by Scots
  • Traditional Burns Supper

    A formal Burns Supper follows a specific order:

    The Program

  • Host's welcome
  • Selkirk Grace
  • Soup course
  • Piping in the haggis
  • Address to a Haggis
  • Main course
  • Toast to the Lassies
  • Reply from the Lassies
  • Poetry recitals
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Address to a Haggis

    Burns' famous poem is recited as the haggis is ceremonially cut:

    "Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,

    Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!"

    Traditional Menu

  • Cock-a-leekie soup
  • Haggis with neeps and tatties
  • Cranachan: (dessert)
  • Scottish whisky
  • Cheese and oatcakes
  • Scottish Traditions

  • Wearing tartan
  • Playing bagpipes
  • Highland dancing
  • Poetry readings
  • Whisky toasts
  • Famous Burns Poems

  • "Auld Lang Syne"
  • "To a Mouse"
  • "A Red, Red Rose"
  • "Tam o' Shanter"
  • Global Celebrations

    Burns Suppers are held worldwide:

  • Scotland (of course!)
  • USA and Canada
  • Australia and New Zealand
  • Everywhere Scots have settled
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