Read about 'Wallace and Burns' by Alan B Herriot
Enjoy the description of 'Burns in Edinburgh' by C M Hardie
Admire the murals by Ted & Elizabeth Odling
See the 5-painting version of 'Tam o' Shanter' by Angus Scott
View the Irvine bookshop chair used by Burns in 1781-82
Irvine heritage - the lifeboat barometer of 1862
To visit, email visits@irvineburnsclub.org, including a phone number. The Museum is run by volunteers, so book at least two days in advance. Admission free.
Apr.-Sept.: Wed, Fri, & Sat - 2-5pm; Oct.-Mar.: Sat 2-5pm
The Museum is run by volunteers, so book at least two days in advance.
Apr.-Sept.: Wed, Fri, & Sat - 2-5pm; Oct.-Mar.: Sat 2-5pm
Groups can request other days/times.
Email visits@irvineburnsclub.org, including a phone number.
Online booking is not currently available.
Limited access: Full disabled access available to ground floor only.
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In 1999, Irvine Burns Club was one of the first Burns Clubs in Scotland to have an online presence - this led to Chinese Channel Europe filming the 2003 Annual Celebration for a food programme broadcast across Europe later that year, and to Cerys Matthews (a founding member of Catatonia) contributing to the entertainment in 2009.
While Wellwood continues to welcome those who can visit, the 2022 redesign takes Wellwood to the world. There are more images and more resources, in more readily accessible formats, while expanding the information gathered over two decades. Read the Jan. 2022 launch-month testimonials ("something of an armchair museum").
Credits: Website redesign by Ian J Dickson (President 1996), with thanks to many directors, members and friends, including Jim Butler (Pres. 1993), Iain Doole (Pres. 2009), Margaret Greenlees (Pres. 2023), Robert Haswell (Pres. 1999), Derek Murdoch (Pres. 2016), Rosemary Murdoch (Pres., Irvine Lasses Burns Club 2019-21), Anne & Richard Foley (Spanish text), Charlie Gilmour (statue video), and Michel Monsigny (French text).
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"Whatever injures society at large, or an individual within it, this is my measure of iniquity."
"War I deprecate: misery & ruin to thousands." Robert Burns, to Mrs Frances Dunlop (1789 & 1792)
2022-23 President Margaret Greenlees
and Vice-President Angus Middleton
after taking office on Sunday 23rd January
The wreath-laying ceremony at the Irvine Burns statue on Sunday 23rd Jan., 2022, as Irvine Burns Club was joined by representatives of other Ayrshire Burns Clubs, by local schools and by local organisations
Also in early 2022:
Congratulations to Team Mouat & Team Muirhead on their Olympic medals - Burns wrote: "To the loughs the curlers flock wi' gleesome speed" and, at the end of the day, "the curlers quat their roaring play."
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