I Bet You NEVER Thought This About a Burns Statue
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- Robert Burns at his best used everyday things to look at wider truths. You'll find his statues all over the world, but Scottish history tour guide Bruce Fummey tells the story of one statue and the events in Burns' life to examine some wider truths.
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Bruce: have you not changed that hoody for four MONTHS?! Phew, let me get upwind... 😉
Bruce, that was pure poetry. I get why the suffragettes gathered there. Not a queen, not a rich benefactress, but an ordinary lass on a plinth (plus the brilliant view).
Very few women get statues unless they are Queens or Goddesses. I heard once that the only example in London was of Florence Nightingale.
Absolutely brilliant, all I can say 🏴🏴
St Andrew loves this comment
Ah thanks
He scratched a poem about a sheep in the cellar door of my bit when it was a pub built in 1741 in esk st Langtoon
Eloquent, fitting for a Burns adjacent video.
Mary Deserves a statue as much as anyone precisely because she was an ordinary Scottish woman of her time and, more than that, one who makes us think.
A ripping yarn, Bruce! Handfasting? Had to look that one up. As a wedding officiant, I have often used the symbolism of actually tying my stole around a couple's hands as if "tying the knot," not realizing that I was performing a "Handfasting" ceremony. Thanks for the story and for teaching an old dog a new trick.
I think that’s your best video, Bruce. Your commentaries are more than a history lesson; every facet (good and bad) of Scottish life is discussed, with some fantastic insights. I’ve said it before, but you should have a telly series. Sgonneil!!!! 🏴🏴
Wow, thanks
He already has a wider viewership here on YT than a TV series in the UK...
...and we are just the tip of the iceberg...some are not subscribed...and some share with others 😁
Aye I think the point is that if I was on TV you wouldn't get the same thing. They would change it to suit what they wanted as opposed to me saying what I want..
I adore the idea of a statue having four lives! Living in a Southern state in America it makes me think about the four lives of many statues in this area. Thank you for the thoughts I will be delving into. Now on to learn about the Campbell ancestors (which I have some in my tree). This makes me think of an Indigo Girls song lyrics that goes "...and now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another life time." As always, great video!
The four lives made me think of all torn down statues in the Soviet statue graveyard in Estonia. I wonder if we will ever have one in the USA for statues whose significance have taken on new life and are no longer welcome in their communities. As with the Soviet statues, there are lessons to be learned from the reincarnations of meanings and social and historical content.
@eileencarroll6418 I think a statue graveyard could be a solution. Or plaques that go over both sides of the person that is being memorialized. I personally have a problem with the bust of Robert E. Lee, where I live in SW Florida. I live in Lee County, Florida. The county is named after Robert E. Lee, even though the man never stepped foot in this County. Fort Myers, the biggest city in the county, was a union fort, that took in run away slaves during the Civil War. Thirdly Lee himself was against statues of himself. The bust of Lee was commissioned by the daughters of the confederacy and placed in 1966 during the Civil right movement time frame. So yes there is much to learn with this, local to me, issue.
are you aware of the statue in Savannah
"TYRANTS FALL IN EVERY FOE LIBERTY'S IN EVERY BLOW."
In memory of our Scottish forbears, whose valor inspired these immortal lines by
Robert Burns,
this marker is gratetully
dedicated by the Saint Andrew's Society of Savannah, Georgia on its 250th
That was a nice wee narration at the end, guid to have you back Bruce, glad yer no skiving aff for 2 weeks in a row ;-)
I had two weeks. Noo I'm back
There’s a Robert Burns statue in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia that’s served as a rallying point of all kinds of rallies and protests for progressive causes, most recently calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. The park behind it, named Victoria Park, is home to an ever-growing tent city as the housing crisis and rent prices keep increasing in the city. It’s an interesting bit of poetry that the park named after a queen who herself oversaw the displacement of many people from their homes - including in the Highlands - hosts so many displaced people being watched over by Burns - a sort of champion of the poor and forgotten
I'll see it when I'm in Halifax in May. I hope you'll be coming to one of my live shows on 16th or 17th
Bruce, You are a masterful storyteller!! You bring history to life! Kudos!
Bruce
Thank you sir
Wow. Fascinating. I recently found an 1863 book of Burns's Works - volume 1 - in a op shop (Australia). I bought it as a present for my husband who was born in Clackmannanshire. My ancestors on my father's side were the clan MacBain/MacBean/MacBeth. My parents, who are no longer of this earth, told me of an ancestor who 'jumped ship' somewhere along the Queensland coast as he was in trouble with the law. Upon watching your youtube video about the 'Wild Scotsman' James MacPherson my mind went bonkers. Many of my fathers' family lived at or around Ipswich in Queensland. My Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother lived in Strathpine for a while...just south of Bald Hills. My Great Grandfather's name was James Palmer and he became the lighthouse keeper on Moreton Island in the early 1900's. No idea if this is in anyway connected, but I've gone down that rabbit hole. I'll keep digging...and I absolutely love your history of Scotland. Stay awesome!
Brilliant
One of my ancestors was born in Clackmannanshire!
One of your very best, Bruce. Thank you.
I lived in Dunoon and Kilmun with my parents, while my father was stationed on USS Canopus, as part of Holy Loch, Scotland; from 1972 to 1974.
My mother has many photos of Highland Mary, and loves that area.
Turning our back on atrocities is difficult, but the right. Will stand and contemplate more statues, I will. Bless you Bruce
Highland Mary is and was Burns' muse. She inspired him in life, and even more so in death. It is right, fitting and just, that we should honor her for inspiring Scotland's Bard and Poet.
As a Scots descendent, we're a deeply romantic people. Highland or Low, it doesn't matter.
That her statue could have multiple meanings, only adds to her veneration mo bhràither.
Burns was rumoured to have been using poetry from muirkirk
BRILLIANT INTERPRETATION with universal application; more please.
I'll try
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Happy Robby Burns Day!
What a pleasant surprise on a Saturday morning...,thank you sir, enjoy your weekend...E....😊😊
Ah thanks
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What a wonderful retelling of a story.
I hope the tourist pressed a crisp £20 note in your hand and invited you to take your family out for a fish supper at the end of it.
(I will consult the moths in my wee purse next month to see if I can contribute a small amount to the cost of the salt and vinegar.)
Really enjoyed that - thank you 🙂
😂I think they were just glad to get away
Thank you for this thoughtful recital. It's plain that Highland Mary never carried a sword or acted with perfidy or treachery. She was a love of Burns, a muse, the would-be mother of his child. He and his life were complex and it is understandable that he would love someone like her. I will be having a wee dram in Robert Burns honor in a couple of days, and I will have one for Highland Mary, too.
Hey there, I'm the guy in Auchterarder that turned to you in the shop and said 'you're the boy on TH-cam' 🙈
Sorry I didn't have more time, I'm a local taxi driver in the town and often watch your videos during the tourist season so I have some knowledge to show off to American travellers!
Another wonderful video, Bruce!
Glad you enjoyed it
Your series has helped me understand celtic people's relationship to not only GB but to independence and the struggle for a national identity in the general sense. Be it in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland or the Northern Ireland settlements, this has helped me understand history behind the history.
Delighted
No one of Celtic descent, by your standard, live in England then.
Cornwall springs to mind straight away.
Stop mixing genetics with a Nationalist agenda.
I wish i had someone like you as a history teacher. I always liked history so having a history teacher like you who is as passionate about history as you are i probably would have finished high school and become an archeologist or a historian or a history teacher myself. Your passion about Scotland's history is incredible. Im from the US but my sir name is Grant and i do know i have ancestors who were involved in the Jacobite uprisings. So that has been a subject that i have had an interest in. I even managed to inspire my 10 year old Nephew to learn about history and because of the ancestral lineage we have to the Scottish highlands he is really interested in learning.
Well done that lad
Tremendous video Bruce!❤ I'm glad that Margaret's (Mary's) statue stands where it stands today. From what you said, I'm glad that it stands at all! But mostly, I'm glad that you paid tribute to her and to the statue. You're right, a statue has four lives at least! She deserves to be where she is. She and Burns were both way ahead of ther time, so it's fitting that she was a rallying point for women! It's a testament to who she was that she didn't end up in the drink! And I think she knew that Burns came back for her. That means she probably was the one that got away, just not in a good way. She is the melancholy in his words. Using his words to end this story was perhaps most fitting of all, because of how well they did fit!
Thanks for a truly cool video! 😊
Side note: When I was part of a little Celtic band here in the States, we were invited by the local St. Andrew's Society to play. They had heard that we actually did Burns' music 'correctly'. But the guys in the band decided to march into the hall playing Scotland The Brave on kazoos! So much for correctly!🙄 I was setting up instruments on stage when this happened so, no kazoo for me! I was invited back to perform Burns' songs as well as Scots Gaelic ones but the band itself was never invited back. 😂
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Excellent once again but gives you food for thought 🏴
Jimmy Saville loved Scotland and the people
@matimus100 What a dick comment
@@matimus100 air falbh agus goil do cheann-loisgte.🖕
@@matimus100 Lots of Englishmen loved Scotland.
I truly enjoyed and learned something from this video. I love that poem of Burns’ and quote it often. As an American my history includes a small conflict called the American Civil War. (There are other names) Now we are removing statues of Confederate Generals and placing them in museums or storage. Thank you for naming the four lives of a statue. I never thought of it in that way. I have stood on the battle field of Gettysburg with it many memorials to the men who fought there. I always come to the sayings of the Union soldiers that those statues belong to the men (and one woman) who fought and died on that ground. Than you for giving my brain a work out.
Something as simple as a statue can bring out so many stories. This was brilliant. I admire sculptors as I am an artist, so another story could be about the designer of this amazing work of art ❤
Bruce, excellent video. I loved it. ❤
So glad!
Well said Bruce!
Another gifted video, leaving us all with something important to think about. Thank you.
Loved it Bruce! Thanks 😊
So glad!
I’ve been to that statue, it’s quite a climb! Interesting history, there’s a bit of information about her in the little museum nearby.
Indeed
Im so glad you are back! Hope you had a wonderful holiday!
Sculpting is an art. And Art is about interpretation.
Bruce, the strangest Burns connection is to the TSB. He visited Ruthwell manse near the end of his life. There is a quote and a painting of him saying to “a lassie”, that he would not survive long (it has a chalybeate spring). His host, was the Minister who did a lot of good works, including founding what became the “Trustees Savings Bank”.
Robby Burns day is hallowed to me. It was my father’s Birthday and my best friend Duncan Campbell as well. And I have a penchant for Whiskey. Thanks for your fine work. You soothe my ears sir. Thank you.
Bruce, you've such a gift for spinning a tale.
But it's more. In your best stories (and yes, I believe this is one of the best) You layer in multiple, often surprising, points to ponder.
The longer I watch you (and, I suppose, the longer you are about this work) the more valuable and important these gems are for us all.
Thank you!
That's what I was aiming for my friend
Wow Bruce I really enjoyed this👍🏴
Glad to hear it
Blessed Imbolic Bruce family and Crew!!! Big huggies
I just love your channel. I deliver the Immortal Memory at our Burns Banquet here in Pennsylvania, and I will be passing out the link to this video when it's delivered next weekend. Wishing you all the very best in light and love!
Whas lake us,
No many an there ah deed 😅
Please do!
Well written, well presented and well said 🌞
Thank you for another brilliant video. A few things you said were absolutely insightful and thought provoking. Well done.
I thank you
Great history...any chance for Battle of Nesbit Moor in the future?
Who knows?
As always, Bruce your story telling stirs up some deep thought & then lightens it with a lil humor. I truely love your videos. 💙🏴
Ah thanks
Another belter Brucey Boy!!!
Cheers
So good. Eloquent, funny, educational and entertaining. Love it.
Thank you kindly
Another thought provoking video 🤠💜
I been watching your channel for a long time and find history of Scotland fascinating one. Also learning more about he my Scottish ancestors and understanding about what life was like for them and how they lived through the hardships and persecutions. I look forward to the next video.
Thanks so much
@@ScotlandHistoryTours you welcome. Do you happen to know anything else about the Pitcairn family? The last known fact was that the family had been a minister of Dreghorn Ayrshire then the trail ran cold and the family disappeared. Before that, the family were laird of Fife. Now I do have a lot of nomads and travellers in my family so finding Scottish Lords and Ladies popping up is a puzzle. I have found Armsteads Andrews and Anderson's stories very interesting as I am slowly piecing a mix of heritage with more questions and am fascinated to learn more
Wow! Truly amazing! I can think of no other words!
Thank you! 😊
Great thoughtful video. Visited Dunoon and the Cowal Peninsula but missed this statue a few years back. Got an earful from a friendly proprietor about the Lamonts though--delightful, as I may be related! ❤🔥
And lang may yours, totally engrossed from the first minute, saw heilan Mary for years and never thought anything other than "Rabbie's Burd", Thank you Big man. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
What a great story again, especially your summary at the end. Being descended from the Lamont clan, I agree with you. let us be Brothers and Sisters. Too much turmoil has been started from grievances, actual and perceived. Her statue and story should be viewed for what it is, a sad reminder of love lost. Thank You Bruce!
Absolutely brilliant Bruce!
Ah thanks
You are really good at what you do.
Ah thanks
Thank you.
Great story time as always! Something interesting to chew on here.❤
Glad you enjoyed
Bruce,
good to see that you are back and on-line. A few of us will gather at our own statue of Robbie Burns in Brisbane on his birthday (25th January 2024), to raise a dram or three, recite some poetry and wish him "Happy Birthday".
slainte mhath
Robbo
Brilliant
Love the story, never heard of this!
Wow, well told story! Thanks! :)
Thanks for listening
I'm not sure why, but this may be the finest story of yours I have seen. Wonderful!
Ah how kind
Youz didn't mess about getting that video up 💪
Next time I make it down I'm going to spend a bit less time in the pub and a good bit of time around the Castle Hill, monuments ect. My pal was waiting in the wee coffee shop at the bottom when I bumped into you so I didn't want to keep her waiting all day whilst I nerded out on history 🤣 I HAD to climb the hill though.
The wild camping was amazing in the Bishop's Glen area behind the town. It's a really beautiful part of the country that I'm looking forward to spending more time in. Also looking forward to seeing more of your videos on it.
Cheers, troops 🤟
Brilliant
The statue of Mary is lovely, and your video was excellent. Wish there was more known about her personally than being one of many women pursued by Burns and reflected in his work. It seems since Mary has a stature because of her relationship with Burns that there should be also statues to the other women in his life: Elizabeth Paton, Jean Amour, Ann Park, Agnes "Nancy" McLehose, Jenny Clow, and Margaret "May" Cameron.
Good to see you on the Best Coast. One of these days I ken see mah hoose fae here
Happy new year bruce to you and your family, awe the best fir the coming year 🥃🏴🥰
Thanks so much
Thanks
Thank YOU
I found this video moving and became quite emotional Bruce. Thing is i'm not 100% sure why. Certainly got me thinking.
tha beauty and humor of tha telling
and tha universal , timeless points You shared through tha video are life lessons to ponder
brilliant work / fun as always
My pleasure
Quality as ever, thanks
Much appreciated!
well said
I was in Dunoon a few years ago geocaching and couldn't find the geocache hidden at that statue- it was missing but I did wonder who she was and what her story was about so thanks for this great video. 👍🙂
I believe this is your best video to date!!! Carry on son. See you in Fergus Ontario at the end of June!!
might see Ya there
living about hour half from Fergus
Slainte
Can't wait!
Reminds me of Mt Gambier, South Australia.
P.S. I really wanted to go to your show in Adelaide, but the taxi cost shut me down. I hope it was a good show for you and everyone.
I've visited Mary's statue many years ago on route to Dunoon but didn't know the story thank you.
My 1950s US parents were highly unusual. Pro civil and human rights, anti atom bomb, etc, etc., the house was full of books and a great love of poetry. Including Bobby Burns, whom I first learned of as a small child when my mother read his poetry aloud to me. Their beliefs, insistence I learn the real, if often terrible history of humanity also made me into the troublemaker and agitator I’ve been all my life. Thank you for reminding me of those times. Btw my Scottish great grandmother, an East Texas farmer’s wife, was a suffragette who bobbed her hair and was arrested in San Antonio Texas, to the horror of her sons. I come from a long line of unusual, very strong women.
Beautifully articulated as usual
213k subs wow , I mind the early days but well deserved
Aye it's mental
AWESOME!
Brilliant video Bruce. Talking about massacres and such like, I often wonder about the ordinary folk caught up in the big historical events. My direct ancestors as far back as I've traced them on the Campbell side were farm labourers and later factory & ship workers, some living in slum conditions when they moved from Argyll to the Calton in the 1800s. As far as I know they never massacred anyone, that was for the posh folk and their paid thugs, although you never know. Loads of folk seem to claim descent of Robert the Bruce or the Duke of Argyll, but never Hamish the carrot breeder from Kilmahog. But, I'd be very proud to have a link to Margaret.
Exactement
Fantastic video. For me she was just a woman in love kept from her man by the prejudice and judgement of others. Sadly something that we Scots remain very good at today.
Aye, I don't think it's limited to Scots
My Grandparents (married 1904) had 2 statues they called 'Burns and Highland Mary'. The Burns could hold a pocket watch. Thank you for reminding me! I'm 77!
Brilliant
Brilliant and moving video.
Hey Bruce: How about doing a video about the Wizard Laird of Skene? I know it isn't quite history but I think it could lend itself to your style of story telling.
BTW, the oral tradition in our family is that we are somehow related to the Skenes, although the family stories don't match the history we've been able to find online.
Great story
“Don’t make it too Burnsie” I really did LOL at that.
From what I have read about Burns, it wouldn’t take much to “lead him astray”
“Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend,
Are spent among the lasses, O. “
Another excellent video Bruce. ( BTW....there's some talk about you being on the Campbell payroll. Wicked rumors....watch your back ).
😂😂I wish I did have their money
Well done fella thank you again keep yer end up
Thanks, will do!
Really great. Thank you. Sure all your viewers know that Burns is still a gem in Japan.
I didn't know the story of Highland Mary. Thanks for enlightening me.
As I have fewmale Campbells and MacDonalds in my ancestry I don't feel too strongly that there are goodies and baddies, just a whole series of tit for tat exchanges that didn't achieve a great deal in the end.
We have a Robbie burns statue in the city center. I live in a place called Dunedin in New Zealand. We have always had a strong Scottish connection
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A differing take on the death of the author, but extended from the author and reader to subject, sculptor, viewer, etc.
I was born in Scotland, but have lived in New Zealand for slightly over 50 years since just before my 12th birthday. I remember some teachers in the late 60s who punished those who spoke Scots at school. Our teacher didn't strap like some others. She had a naughty corner, for those who misbehaved. They were given lines to write and had their back to the class facing into the corner. The other was the stupid corner, where they faced the class and were verbally belittled by the teacher for speaking "such a backward, barbaric dialect". She never taught Burns.
The first teacher who taught Burns was a teacher I had from 1970 to 1973 when we left. He also never punished people for speaking Scots at school. I think this was more a change from the education department/Ministry, rather than the individual teachers or school.
When I came out in the 80s, my father, ever a racist and "traditionalist", said he would have preferred I "had started dating some rough Maori woman, or even a Campbell, than be that way". His hatred of Campbells was greater than his racism.
Personally, I think the source of the feud was the rape of the Lamont women, of there was not something earlier lost to recorded history.
Hey Bruce excellent story, broom cottage beside dalintober primary school was Mary’s place of Residence in Campbeltown, unfortunately demolished, who needs History eh, I’m a Campbeltown man who lives now in polmont, maybe see ya in Campbeltown. 😅
I'll definitely be there in March
Loved the story about Highland Mary ( Margaret) I must say that I have known / been in association with, two Campbell`s both of whom turned out to be devious and duplicitous. So guess which side of the see saw I come down on. Thanks for your stuff Bruce
A grand story well told. Hope you are still adding dates to the Canadian tour. If not I will be booking some holidays for the Calgary show.
Vancouver was the last one added. I can't get Kelowna to answer. There's a possibility of one down Hamilton/Niagra way, but other than that the schedules made up
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Calgary it will be then. :)
I just added a show in Hamilton
Thank you and happy new year to you
What happened to Burns's first 'wee lass'? Did she & her baby survive?
What I find sad is that her gaze across the water defines this woman through her relationship to a man. So i am confused as to why the suffragettes would gather there. A representation of her before she left as a woman in control of her own destiny, going forth into the world to pursue it, might represent her better. But maybe it is really a statue to love. Thats how I see it.
You should do a sponsored reading of the Glasgow telephone directory, whilst such books still exist.
You'd make it interesting and humorous. Go on, bonnie lad...!
😂It'll be a list of twitter handles these days
Beautiful!
Blessings, great story teller you are! In my opinion Mary carried a heavy load on those shoulders. I can understand why the women gathered to protest to win the right to vote.
Another good one Bruce! When are you coming to America?
When visas are easier to get and guns are harder to get😜
Looks like I will see you in Scotland before you see me in America.
Real easy to avid mass shootings here, just stay away from Gun Free Zones.@@ScotlandHistoryTours
We have a Robert Burns statue in our city centre in Dunedin New Zealand
I've made a video standing next to it