WELLWOOD BURNS CENTRE

Your visit includes this mural (of Burns at the printer) and much else

arrange your personal tour here browse the Wellwood Collection Exhibits Hub our Facebook page Our Bicentenary year, with President Peter and Vice-President Rosemary

at IrvineBurns (est. 1826), we celebrate the key role of the poet's year in Irvine, we offer a unique visitor experience in the Wellwood Museum, and we contribute to research.
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to visit (Apr.-Sept. - Wed/Fri/Sat. 2.30) click
admission free - please book min. 3 days in advance
(other times by arrangement, email visits@irvineburnsclub.org) (Apr.-Sept.: Wed/Fri/Sat. 2.30pm )

Bicentenary Year 2026
follow our brown sign (on right: President Angus Middleton points the way in Jan. 2024)
Fri 7 - Sun 9 Aug. - Bicentenary Exhibition, 11am - 4pm
Fri 14 Aug.: New Irvine Community Choir 7.30pm
Wed 23 Sept.: concert: Donny Deacon, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
* for info on the progress of the John Galt Way, see menu item under Projects *
Latest item on website: the Club home before 'Wellwood'

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28 Eglinton Street, Irvine, Ayrshire, KA12 8AS

Apr.-Sept. Wed/Fri/Sat 2.30 Oct.-March Sat 2.30
Please book visits in advance - see link above

Parking: on Eglinton St or in car park at rear off East Road.

Access: Full disabled access is available to ground floor only.

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2026-27 President Peter Latham
with Vice-President Rosemary Murdoch

photographed at the handover ceremony on Sunday 25th Jan.,
standing in front of the Bicentenary Banners
which highlight the long history of Irvine Burns Club

< photo by Past President Derek Murdoch >

Wellwood on the web -

In 1999, IrvineBurns 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 programme shown across Europe, and to Cerys Matthews (a founding member of Catatonia) joining us in 2009.

The 2022 redesign took IrvineBurns to the world of more images and more resources, in more readily accessible formats, while expanding the information gathered over two decades. See the testimonials ("something of an armchair museum"). Extra information is frequently added.

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).

"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)

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The wreath-laying ceremony at the Irvine Burns statue in January 2025, as Irvine Burns Club was joined by representatives of other Ayrshire Burns Clubs, by local schools and by local organisations

Annual Celebration - Sat. 24th Jan. 2026 - £37 - for details and booking info click here