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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Gregor Young

Minecraft project brings Burns’s home back to life

Robert Burns Ellisland Farm recreated in Minecraft / Embargoed to 00.01Monday 1st of August...It was also the location and inspiration for some of the poet’s most famous works including Tam o Shanter and Auld Lang Syne..Now Ellisland Farm, where

THE former home of Scotland’s national bard is being brought to virtual life thanks to a team from Glasgow University.

Ellisland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway, where Robert Burns lived from 1788 to 1791, has been recreated in its 18th-century form on the video game Minecraft. Undergraduates and postgraduates from the university’s Minecraft Society worked alongside the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust to build the farm as Burns and his family knew it.

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