The Committee for the 4th Irish Genealogical Congress has announced that Vivien Costello will be the Keynote Speaker for the Opening Dinner. Mrs. Costello is Chairman of CIGO (the Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations) for 2001 and is a committee member of IGC4. She has been involved in Irish genealogical circles since the early 1980s and her main area of research is her Huguenot ancestry. With the late Nora Fahie she was joint founder of the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The 4th IGC is scheduled for 17-23 September 2001. While all lectures will be held at Trinity College, Dublin, the opening dinner will be at the Hilton Hotel, along the Grand Canal, Dublin, and the Congress Banquet will be at Clontarf Castle. The Irish Genealogical Congress is an international conference dealing with family history and related subjects of interest to the Irish worldwide. It is open to anyone interested in Irish genealogy as a hobby or a profession. Patron of the Congress is the Lord O'Neill. Aideen M. Ireland, President of the IGC, a senior archivist at the National Archives of Ireland, is also the current Chairman the Society of Archivists, the organisation of professional archivists in the British Isles. Genealogists from Ireland who will address the Congress include, among many others: Eileen O'Duill, Helen Kelly and Tony McCarthy. The program of lectures includes American specialists in Irish genealogy: Dwight Radford, Kyle Betit, Marie V. Melchiori, Elizabeth Kerstens and R. Andrew Pierce. The complete program for the week-long Congress is posted on the website: http://indigo.ie/~irishgc. The website contains reservation details and a continually updated list of speakers and events. Paul Gorry IGC Chairman