[1] The group was founded in 1981, in the wake of the failure of MP Donald Stewart's private member's bill, which had sought for Gaelic the same status enjoyed by Welsh in Wales.
Some of those who travelled to London to observe the progress of the bill, most of them students from Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow, met afterwards to discuss non-violent direct action, a tactic which had played a key role in the campaigns of Cymdeithas yr Iaith in Wales.
Members of the group included Iain Taylor, Mark Wringe, Alan Esslemont,[1] Stephen Maceachern, Anne Martin, Kay Matheson and the MacDonald brothers.
In court, a witness on Taylor's behalf attempted to give evidence in Gaelic and was forbidden to do so.
Roger Hutchinson, A Waxing Moon: The Modern Gaelic Revival, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2005.