 The Irvine Burns Club is one of the oldest continually existing Burns Clubs in the World and has an excellent collection of Burns artifacts, including the Kilmarnock Edition and Edinburgh editions of ""Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect"", by Robert Burns.The club has six of the original manuscripts which Burns sent to John Wilson, printer, Kilmarnock, for his famous Kilmarnock Edition, published on 31 July 1786, namely – "The Twa Dogs", "The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer", "The Address to the Deil", "Scotch Drink" and "The Cottar's Saturday Night".The Irvine Burns Club has the oldest continuous record of any Burns club in the World.