Burns Night 2023 - To a Mouse
Published: 25 January 2023
The University of Glasgow houses the biggest concentration of Robert Burns experts in the world. Here they celebrate Burns Night 2023.
The University of Glasgow houses the biggest concentration of Robert Burns experts in the world.
The experts are based at the School of Critical Studies Centre for Robert Burns Studies.
For Burns Night 2023, the centre's new co-Directors Dr Rhona Brown and Dr Pauline Mackay recite 'To A Mouse'. There are echoes of Adam Smith's 'Theory of Moral Sentiments' in 'To a Mouse', making the poem a fitting choice for the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith 300 celebrations this year.
Adam Smith (1723-1790), considered to be the father of modern economics, was a former student and Professor at the University of Glasgow, and one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
'To a Mouse' was also voted Scotland's favourite Scots poem in a recent VisitScotland survey, with over a fifth of Scots saying this was the favourite one they learned as a child.
Happy #BurnsNight!
— University of Glasgow (@UofGlasgow) January 25, 2023
Listen to new Co-Directors for UofG's @GlasgowBurns Centre, Senior Lecturers @UofGArts @RhonaLBrown1 & @MackayPAG, recite 'To a Mouse' as we celebrate the birth of the Bard. #TaetheBard #RobertBurns #ScotlandisNow @Scotland pic.twitter.com/Pduq4lgXHJ
First published: 25 January 2023
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