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Alexei Kondratiev in New York

Rugadh agus tógadh Alexei Kondratiev i Nua Eabhrac. Ba Rúiseach é a athair agus Francach a bhí ina mháthair. Níl gaolta ar bith in Éirinn aige ach bhí suim ariamh aige sna teangacha ceilteacha ó na 60í ar aghaidh. Bhí cónaí air ar Inis Mean ar feadh cúpla bliain. Is scríobhneoir é a bhíonn ag plé le cúrsaí ceilteacha agus is múinteoir Gaeilge é chomh maith san Lárionad Gaelach i Nua Eabhrac. Tugann Alexei SRL ar chuairt ar chodanna dá chathair dúchais, an t-Úll Mór, an chathair is mó ar domhan.

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Alexei Kondratiev was born in New York to a Russian Father and French mother. He was educated in Bourgogne in France where his interest in all things Celtic was aroused by the many relics of the Celtic age which surrounded him in the French countryside. He has no relatives in Ireland but during the 1960s, he travelled through Brittany, Wales and Ireland and even lived on Inis Mean for a time. Now a fluent Irish speaker, he writes about Celtic languages and culture and he also teaches Irish at the Irish Arts Centre in New York. Alexei takes SRL on tour of his native city, the Big Apple, the biggest city on earth.