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Why are Robert Burns suppers held?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

There has been suppers held in his name from 2 years after his death....I believe the first was held in the Globe Inn, Dunkeld which still runs and operates today, there is still a poem etched in the window by Rabbie.

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