The Third Irish Genealogical Congress will take place on 22-28September 1997 in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. A number ofpresentations on the Famine are planned as part of the 150thanniversary. Another theme will be the seventy-five years work toreconstitute the records destroyed in the Four Courts fire in 1922, aswell as the usual round of excursions, exhibitions, documentary filmshows and discussions.