Alexa had to learn these speech features and master them. Irish English, said Mr. Cotescu, who is Romanian and was the lead researcher on the Irish Alexa team, “is a hard one.” ...

I’ve met many Irish youth who take pride in being fluent in Gaelic, and will greet me accordingly, if invited. Only if the young learn to speak Gaelic, will the language live on.

In 2021, Irish was the fastest growing language on Duolingo, with a million people actively learning it — quite high for a language which, according to Kneecap, only 80,000 people speak.