Celebrate Burns Night and Valentines Day with UU

Dr Frank Ferguson, director of the centre for Irish and Scottish studies, will be marking Burns Night on Monday, January 25 at 7.30pm with his talk ‘The Ulster Scots Burns Night Tradition’ which celebrates the great Scottish bard, Robert Burns’ 262nd birthday.

The evening will be a lively night of poetry and stories about Scotland’s greatest literary export and the chance to learn more about the Burns night tradition. Feel free to have your own haggis, neeps and tatties at hand, and of course a dram of your choosing to toast Scotland’s Bard.

Friday, February 12 at 7.30pm will feature The Language of Love, an evening celebrating romantic poetry with poets and lecturers from Ulster University’s School of English.

The evening will be introduced by Dr Tim Hancock, a lecturer in English, and a specialist in love poetry and modern literature. With the help of MRI scanners, Tim will discuss the different kinds of love in literature, their characteristic features, and how these features can be recognised in love poems through the ages

Both these events are ‘pay what you can’ and are for staff, students and the public to enjoy.

To book, head to https://www.riversidetheatre.org.uk/ and for more information please email Roisin Daley [email protected]