Donald MacIver | Dòmhnall MacÌomhair (4 August 1857, Cròlasta, Uig, Lewis – 28 September 1935, Garrabost) worked as a headmaster in Bayble, Point, Lewis, a post in which he was succeeded by James Thomson | Seumas MacThòmais, another contributor to Erskine’s periodicals. He was a poet and published the study Place-Names of Lewis and Harris (1934).
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘Dàn do Dhòmhnull MacLeòid, Fear-Iùil a’ Phrionnsa’ [poetry, GD], Vol. II (1918)
Resources
- Ronald Black, ‘Donald Maciver (Dòmhnall MacÌomhair) 1857–1935,’ An Tuil: Anthology of Twentieth-Century Gaelic Verse (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1999)
- Derick S. Thomson, ‘MacÌomhair, Dòmhnall,’ The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983)