On Scotland's "tramp poet", and a kind of Burns Night skulduggery... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to My Great-Great Uncle Roger, by Paul Johnston above.
On 25 January, the anniversary of his birth, Scots everywhere celebrate our national poet, Robert Burns.
My great, great uncle, Roger Quin, was also a poet. His family came to Scotland from Ireland in the 1840s and settled in Dumfries, where Roger was born, in 1850.
He was a bright child and was educated privately. Not because the family had money. Indeed Quin senior was described as "one of the poorest men in Dumfries". But he had influential friends....
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
