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09/10/2026

The decline of Celtic Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿was sparked by the influence of a foreign leader (not, in this case, Sébastien Pocognoli!)

02/10/2026

In the early 9th century some foreign invaders arrived via small boat and wiped out swathes of the native 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 population, (your reform voting uncle is still raging about it!)

The happiest version of Daniel and Brahan, post-Fringe, well-rested with no Fringe shows or podcast episodes to stress a...
22/09/2026

The happiest version of Daniel and Brahan, post-Fringe, well-rested with no Fringe shows or podcast episodes to stress about, bliss! 😍 September is hands down my favourite time of the year! A big thank you to everyone who joined Brahan and I on a tour these past few weeks and got to witness me in a good mood for once! 🙌🏻
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The happiest and healthiest 10 days of the year with the best company Johanna Sivertsson in some of my favourite places ...
10/09/2026

The happiest and healthiest 10 days of the year with the best company Johanna Sivertsson in some of my favourite places in the world! 🥰 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 it was so great to escape Edinburgh for a wee bit after a busy summer 😊👍🏻 Kintail - Falls of Glomach - Kinloch Hourn - Eilean Donan - Applecross - Shieldaig - Torridon - Loch Maree - Poolewe - Corrieshalloch - Stoer - Kinlochbervie - Sandwood Bay - Duncansby - Kinbrace - Dunrobin Castle

🥁 Exciting news, an update on the ‘Worst Guest Championship 2026’ will be coming soon as this week I encountered the wor...
21/08/2026

🥁 Exciting news, an update on the ‘Worst Guest Championship 2026’ will be coming soon as this week I encountered the worst human beings I’ve ever had on a tour! 🙌🏻 🥳 everyone else was amazing though, I was actually starting to worry we’ll have to end the ‘Worst Guest’ Series as everyone has been so sound recently, but then divine intervention gifted me the worst group of people I’ve ever met! A big thank you to everyone who joined Brahan and I at our busiest time of the year and everyone who also then came to see my Fringe show 😊🙏🏻 you’ve one week left to come and see it!
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17/08/2026

In the late 17th century Scotland attempted to gain control of a tiny but immensely important trade choke point in a vast foreign empire we knew little about, the endeavour was a total disaster and would result in thousands of deaths and economic ruin - it makes the Strait of Hormuz seem less ridiculous when you consider Donald Trump has Scottish ancestry 🤷🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

DANIEL DOWNIE: ALBA - Macbeth (1047-1057) was the last truly Celtic King of Scotland and King James IV (1473-1513) the l...
04/08/2026

DANIEL DOWNIE: ALBA - Macbeth (1047-1057) was the last truly Celtic King of Scotland and King James IV (1473-1513) the last Scottish monarch fluent in Gaelic. Celtic Scotland reached its zenith with the medieval Kingdom of Alba but as the political centre moved south the Scottish Highlands and Islands retained its Celtic, Gaelic roots whereas the Lowlands became Anglo-centric and a disdain for the barbaric, ‘backwards’ Highlands became prevalent in Scotland’s economic heartlands. After the 1707 Union with England a new Scot emerged, the ‘North Briton’, eager to cast off any past Gaelic associations and align themselves with the new, modern, British state. Scots rallied against this ‘North British’ homogenous identity and in the 19th century a powerful New Romantic version of Highland identity emerged. So, are modern day Scots more Albannach or Sasannach? ‘Alba’ is a show about Scotland’s Celtic history and identity, both real and imagined 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Come and see ‘Daniel Downie: Alba’ 7th - 30th August, 2.45pm, Beehive Inn Grassmarket

26/07/2026

Texas ties with Florida in the lead for the Worst Guest of the Summer Championship. China and Minnesota also get on the board 🥇but the Edinburgh Fringe is just around the corner and it tends to bring some truly unhinged individuals to the city, so there’s still everything to play for……🏆

Summertime vibes in Edinburgh! 😎☀️ I got to do my ‘the weather’s always like this in Scotland’ gag for pretty much two w...
26/07/2026

Summertime vibes in Edinburgh! 😎☀️ I got to do my ‘the weather’s always like this in Scotland’ gag for pretty much two weeks in the trot! A big thank you to everyone who joined Brahan and I on a tour this past few weeks, the Fringe is just around the corner so this is the last time you’ll see me smiling for a while! 🙈
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14/07/2026

So, you can just about scrape together a rendition of ‘Amazing Grace’ and/or ‘Highland Cathdedral…???’ Congratulations, you’re officially ready to become an Edinburgh piper! 🙌🏻 🎶 🎵 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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