Draft:Torcuil Crichton
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Torcuil Crichton is a Scottish journalist and Gaelic broadcaster.[1] He is standing as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Na h-Eileanan an Iar in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
He is from Swordale in Point, Isle of Lewis, where he grew up.[2][3] He attended Knock primary school.[4]
He worked as a journalist with the West Highland Free Press. He subsequently worked for the Daily Record for twelve years, leaving his role as Westminster editor in 2022 before being selected as a Labour parliamentary candidate.[5] He has also worked for the Herald and Sunday Herald, as well as the BBC,[6] for whom he made a Gaelic TV documentary on Donald Trump's mother Mary Anne MacLeod's journey from the Isle of Lewis to America, Mathair a' Chinn-Suidhe - Trump's Mother.[7]
He co-wrote a Bafta Scotland-nominated Gaelic TV drama, Eilbheas.[8][9] He has also written a teenage novel,[10] Fo Bhruid, a modern Gaelic retelling of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.[11]
Along with Malcolm Maclean he devised a temporary art installation, Sheol nan Iolaire, as a memorial marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of HMY Iolaire, with the loss of 201 men, on 1st January 1919.[12] As of 2024 it remains in place in Stornoway harbour.[13]
He has a younger brother, Donald, who stood as the Labour candidate for Na h-Eileanan an Iar in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election[14], coming second to Alasdair Allan.
References[edit]
- ^ https://www.whfp.com/2023/02/02/isles-candidate-journalist-torcuil-crichton-set-to-stand-at-next-general-election/
- ^ https://www.whfp.com/2023/02/02/isles-candidate-journalist-torcuil-crichton-set-to-stand-at-next-general-election/
- ^ https://www.torcuil.scot/
- ^ https://whitehall1212.blogspot.com/2013/01/landscape-and-memory-for-donald-murdo.html
- ^ https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/former-record-reporter-torcuil-crichton-29084862
- ^ https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/news/former-regional-journalist-bids-to-become-mp-for-uks-smallest-constituency/
- ^ https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/scotland-and-the-firstgeneration-scottishamerican-president-have-always-been-an-uncomfortable-fit
- ^ https://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews/101659/bbc_alba_gets_bafta_scotland_nods
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dkpyb
- ^ https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/119167/pdf/
- ^ https://www.storlann.co.uk/beurla/resources/fo-bhruid.html
- ^ https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81218
- ^ https://www.visitouterhebrides.co.uk/see-and-do/sheol-an-iolaire-p546911
- ^ https://whitehall1212.blogspot.com/2011/05/let-me-tell-you-about-my-brother.html