The new research will be presented by Dr David Goldie, of Strathclyde University, and reveals how Burns was a role model for those who supported the war, like James Dalrymple who raised the Glasgow Tramways Battalion. Equally, Burns was an inspiration for many who opposed the war: the suppressed Socialist paper, Forward, in 1916 designated Scots Wha Hae‚ the unofficial song of the Scottish Socialist movement.
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