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.
He co-founded the quarterly Gaelic magazine Gairm in 1951 with Derick Thomson and served as its chief editor until 1964.
His production for radio of Sydney Goodsir Smith's play, The Wallace, was broadcast on 30th November 1959.
[2] 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 wrote three books of memoirs that recall his childhood on Harris: These have been cited as providing a valuable insight into life in the Outer Hebrides in the interwar period.