What If The Irish Languge Flourished in The 20th Century.

Hebrew had the advantage of being a common language for groups of immigrants who otherwise had no language in common (Yiddish vs. Ladino vs. various varieties of Arabic).

Czech wasn't by any means a dead language; German may have been the language of high culture and business in Bohemia/Moravia, but you still had a Czech-speaking peasantry.
 
As of late wonderfully, I am hearing a lot more Irish being spoken on the streets. I guess it's a reflection that when something is getting rarer it becomes more valuable!:)
 
Hebrew had the advantage of being a common language for groups of immigrants who otherwise had no language in common (Yiddish vs. Ladino vs. various varieties of Arabic).

Yes and no. The major waves of Sfardi and Mizrahi migration are post-WWII, by which time Hebrew is already established as the major language of Jewish Palestinians. Hebrew became dominant, at least as a written language, in the 1920's and 30's, when the overwhelming majority of Jews in the Mandate spoke Yiddish.
 
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I wouldn't bet on it at all, people who have English as their first language tend to be lazy language learners!

then again, you have those anglogeeks who learn klingon so, there.

One thing that's possible is that you might have a creeping cleavage over time between the anglo-irish and gaelo-irish to the point of, a long time from now, having the 2 groups perceiving themselves as different ethnicaly especialy if the first "assimilate" more into the greater anglosphere and the later becomes more attached to its traditions.
 
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