Other Festivals in Kerry
Puck Fair, Killorglin (10 –12 August, each year)
Ireland’s oldest and most unusual street festivals, where a male goat (Puck) is crowned King of the Festival. The celebration, which once lasted 24 hours a day, is now restricted to just 18 hours daily!. The Horse Fair is one of Ireland's most celebbrated events and there is free family entertainment each day with the pubs open to late.
Shindig Traditional Music and Set Dance Festival (22 –24 January, 2010)
The 'Shindig' is a fun packed weekend of great Irish music, dancing singing, story telling and the occasional pint of Guinness. It consists of a series of workshops (classes) on all aspects of Traditional Irish Set Dancing.
Learn everything from the basic steps, movements and styles, to enable you to participate in the old style of house dancing or indeed the advanced battering steps used for the West Clare battering style of dancing.
Listowel Writers’ Week (May 2010)
The annual showpiece of Irish and international literary talent with lectures, interviews, workshops, poetry, thetare, book signings, competitions and film club. The North Kerry Literary Centre in the Square which is open all year features exhibitions on local writers like Maurice Walsh, Bryan McMahon and playwright John B. Keane.
