In March 2020, many Irish-language groups were forced to take their activities online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One event that emerged in this context was an online Pop Up Gaeltacht that has taken place almost every week since then, involving Irish speakers coming together to speak Irish on Zoom. I approached this event as a new Digital Breathing Space (Belmar & Glass in Adeptus, 2019; Cunliffe in Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and as a site of ideological work (Gal & Irvine in Signs of difference: Language and ideology in social life, Cambridge University Press, 2019), interviewing eight key participants in order to explore their varying perspectives on it. By comparing their perspectives with those presented in the TG4 documentary Gaeltacht 2020 and the ethnographic data collected by Walker (Níl aon Tábhairne mar do Thábhairne Féin: Space, Language, and Identity, in the Pop Up Gaeltacht, MA thesis, Maynooth University, 2019) about the Pop Up Gaeltacht in Dublin, I show how the use of online space and language at the Online Pop Up Gaeltacht allows for an understanding of community that challenges traditional geographies of language (Jones in Language revitalisation and social transformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021; Jones & Lewis in New geographies of language: Language, culture and politics in Wales. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) surrounding Irish in a way that the in-person event does not. This furthers our understanding of Digital Breathing Spaces as spaces where an accepted sense of language community can be fostered.