Name Finlay MacDonald Role Journalist | Died 1987 | |
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Books Crowdie and Cream, The Finlay JMacdonald Omnibus, The Corncrake and the L, Crotal & white | ||
Finlay John Macdonald (Scottish Gaelic: Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill; 4 July 1925 – 14 October 1987) was a Scottish journalist and radio and television producer and writer.
Born and raised on Harris in the Outer Hebrides, and a native Gaelic language speaker, was an important figure in Gaelic radio and television broadcasting, founding the Gaelic Drama Association. He co-founded the quarterly Gaelic magazine Gairm in 1951 with Derick Thomson and served as its chief editor until 1964.
Macdonald edited A Journey to the Western Isles (1983), in which he "retraced" the 1773 tour of Scotland by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell by providing the text of Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland along with his own commentary and numerous colour and black-and-white photographs.
He was a radio and television producer. He wrote three books of memoirs that recall his childhood on the island of Harris:
These have been cited as providing a valuable insight into life in the Outer Hebrides in the inter-war years.