Contacts and links

Email address: info @ irvineburnsclub . org (omit the spaces)
Postal address: Irvine Burns Club, "Wellwood", 28 Eglinton St., Irvine, KA12 8AS
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Other Burns Clubs below

Irvine is on Scotland's West Coast, 25 miles south of Glasgow and 10 miles north of Prestwick Airport, and is only 90 minutes drive from Edinburgh. Irvine is served by a half-hourly train service from Ayr or Glasgow, and the Burns Club is within walking or taxi distance of the station.

Irvine is only a 30-minute journey from Burns Cottage and the Burns National Heritage Park at Alloway, so you can easily include us in your Ayrshire visit. Also in Irvine is the Heckling Shed where Burns worked and the house where he stayed in 1781. Those interested in ships may also wish to make time for the Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine harbour.

For a printer-friendly copy of our map, click here

Opening Times - Admission free

Easter to September - Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat 2.30 -4.30
October to March - Saturdays 2.30 - 4.30
We welcome pre-booked visits by interested groups - just write to the Secretary, or email us, at the addresses above.

Other web resources - on Burns and, below, on Irvine

Balerno Burns Club

The World Burns Club, an extensive resource on Robert Burns,

The Robert Burns Association of North America

the National Burns Collection - a national resource

the National Library of Scotland section on Burns,

Burns Country, the official Robert Burns site,

The Bard (from Scotland On-Line),

The Robert Burns Club of Milwaukee (with many useful links),

The Halifax Burns Club in Canada,

Clubs in Scotland include Alexandria Burns Club and the Alamo Burns Club of Paisley,

Barrmill Jolly Beggars Burns Club and their Robert Service Verse-speaking Competition

Bowhill People's Burns Club and Bridgeton Burns Club,

Dalry Burns Club and Mauchline Burns Club,

and Paisley Burns Club and Perth Burns Club.

Places to visit include:
the Burns Heritage Park , the Murison Burns Collection in Dunfermline, and Ellisland Farm.

Wikipedia articles include:
Burns' "Bonnie Lesley" (by Roger Griffith)
Alison Begbie (by Roger Griffith)
Nelly Kilpatrick (by Roger Griffith)
Elizabeth Paton (by Roger Griffith)
Peggy Thompson (by Roger Griffith)
Eglinton Park and Burns (by Roger Griffith)
Mary Morrison (by Roger Griffith)
May Cameron (by Roger Griffith)
Jenny Clow (by Roger Griffith)
Dr John Mackenzie (by Roger Griffith)
Mary Campbell (by Roger Griffith)
Ann Park (by Roger Griffith)
Agnes Broun (by Roger Griffith)
Agnes Maclehose (by Roger Griffith)
Richard Brown (by Roger Griffith)
Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton (by Roger Griffith)
William Burnes (by Roger Griffith)
Nelly Blair (by Roger Griffith)
Jessie Lewars (by Roger Griffith)
Isabella Steven (Tibbie Stein) (by Roger Griffith)
Anne Rankine (by Roger Griffith)
Helen Hyslop of Moffat (by Roger Griffith)
Jean Gardiner / Gardner / Hill (by Roger Griffith)
Irvine Harbour & Robert Burns (by Roger Griffith)
Burns' diamond point engravings (by Roger Griffith)

'Borealis', the five-piece Ayrshire band creating and performing their own versions of the songs of Robert Burns in a contemporary fusion of jazz, classical, folk and blues

For video scenes of Scotland and much else, try 'The Magic of Scotland'

For more information about Irvine in general,

Irvine Ayrshire links page (includes other Ayrshire links),

the Irvine Herald, one of the local papers,

the Magnum Leisure Centre,

the Harbour Arts Centre,

Irvine Incorporated Trades,

The Irvine Carters Society (the Marymass website)