Students unveil a Braille plaque in honour of Robert Fergusson
8/09/08
Bilal Iqbal and Damon Horne who attend the Royal Blind School unveiled a commemorative Braille plaque at the Canongate Kirk.
The plaque celebrates the life of Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson (1750-74). Largely forgotten today, Fergusson’s career as a poet lasted only three years during the mid-eighteenth century but included gems such as Auld Reekie and To The Tron Kirk Bell.
Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson both acknowledged him as an inspiration and Burns paid for a headstone after he was buried in a pauper’s grave. The plaque has been fixed to railings at Canongate Kirk in the Royal Mile where Fergusson is buried near his statue. The Friends of Robert Fergusson raised the money for both the plaque and the statue to pay tribute to our forgotten poet.
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