[2]In 1948, after a visit to the Isle of Man by An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, the Irish Folklore Commission was tasked with recording the last remaining native speakers on fragile acetate discs.

Members of Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh, Walter Clarke and Bill Radcliffe, helped Kevin Danaher in the tedious and delicate work of setting up the recording equipment.

[4] After a long period of relative inactivity, in the 1970s Doug Fargher helped to reinvigorate Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh by organising Oieghyn Gaelgagh ('Manx Language Nights') and publishing new learner material.

[5] Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh has been involved in organising Cooish, an annual inter-Gaelic festival of language and culture on the Isle of Man every autumn since the 1990s.

[6] The festival aims to promote Gaelic and Manx identity and is "an opportunity to come together, enjoy the culture and celebrate one of the really unique ways of belonging to the Isle of Man".