Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Finlay J Macdonald (Gaelic: Fionnlagh Domhnallach) (1925-1987) 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 Thompson 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 memoirs related to his home town of Harris: Crowdie and Cream (1982) Crotal and White (1983) The Corncrake and the Lysander (1985).These have been cited as providing a valuable insight into life in the Outer Hebrides in the inter-war years.. }
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- Finlay_J._MacDonald abstract "Finlay J Macdonald (Gaelic: Fionnlagh Domhnallach) (1925-1987) 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 Thompson 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 memoirs related to his home town of Harris: Crowdie and Cream (1982) Crotal and White (1983) The Corncrake and the Lysander (1985).These have been cited as providing a valuable insight into life in the Outer Hebrides in the inter-war years.".