Former Labour Leader and EU Commissioner Neil Kinnock is the latest speaker confirmed for the 3rd Celtic Connections Conference. Now Chairman of the British Council, Lord Kinnock will give the keynote address on Tuesday 16th May, 2006.

Other speakers confirmed include Professor José-Marie Griffiths, Dean of Information and Library Studies at the University of North Carolina; Lorcan Dempsey, Vice-President and Chief Strategist at OCLC, and Sandra Ward of TFPL.

Further programme news will be posted soon.