Òran Mór Entertainment Venue, Glasgow
Entrance to Òran Mór This afternoon my wife an myself attended a theatrical performance at Òran Mór in Glasgow's West End, a name which translates from Scots Gaelic as "great melody of life" or "big song". This is a theatre, restaurant, entertainment and music venue which stands opposite to Glasgow's Botanic Gardens . From 1862 until 1978 the building was the Kelvinside Parish Church before becoming redundant and then converted into an entertainment venue in 2004. Inside, the ground floor is now a bar and eating area whilst the floor below is used as a small theatre. Ground floor The theatrical performance ('A Herstory of the Scottish Bard') was first class and centred on the complicated relationships between Robert Burns (Scotland's National Poet) and some of the many females in his life, in this case Jean Armour, Nancy Maclehose (aka 'Clarinda') and his granddaughter, Sarah. Burns' life was relatively short covering the pe...