Finlay J. MacDonald

Finlay John Macdonald (; 4 July 1925 – 14 October 1987) was a Scottish journalist and radio and television producer and writer. Career Born and raised on Harris in the Outer Hebrides, MacDonald was a native Gaelic language speaker and an important figure in Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland. He founded the Gaelic Drama Association and co-founded the quarterly Gaelic language magazine Gairm in 1951 with Derick Thomson. MacDonald served as Gairm'''s chief editor until 1964.

MacDonald was a radio and television producer. His production for radio of Sydney Goodsir Smith's play, The Wallace, was broadcast on 30 November 1959.

MacDonald edited A Journey to the Western Isles (1983), in which he retraced the 1773 tour of Scotland by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. The book provided the text of Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland along with MacDonald's commentary and photographs.

Memoirs He wrote three books of memoirs that recall his childhood on Harris: Crowdie and Cream (1982) Crotal and White (1983) The Corncrake and the Lysander'' (1985).