Today

Puck Fair: Day one of this riotous three-day festival. Join thousands of spectators as a wild mountain goat is paraded through Killorglin, Co Kerry, and proclaimed King. The horse and cattle fair take place on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings while the town rocks with music and dance of all kinds until the early hours. Tel: (066) 62366.

Yeats International Summer School: The Sligo school continues into its second week. Lectures include Yeats and Modernism, Fabricating an Irish Identity: Yeats, Wilde and Joyce and Yeats and the Gaelic World. Tel: (071) 42693.

Gasyard Wall Feile '98: The theme for this Derry festival is "streets" and features a reading by Irvine Welsh (tonight), a children's mini film festival, live music, comedy and street parties. A media forum presented by Eamonn McCann and Jimmy McGovern will discuss Hillsborough/Bloody Sunday (Friday). Other discussions include Resolving Conflict and Building Peace, Streets of Change, and Community Justice. Until Sunday. Tel: (0801-504) 262426.

Islamic Culture: The Islamic Cultural Centre is hosting an Open Cultural Week from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily until Sunday. Visit an exhibition of Islamic art, tour the mosque, taste oriental food and step into a Bedouin tent, all in Clonskeagh, Dublin. Tel: (01) 2603740.

Summer art for children: Artist-in-residence at The Ark in Temple Bar, Dublin, will show that drawing is not just something you do with a pencil on a piece of paper. This visual arts programme holds single sessions for different ages, from four to 14 years old. Until Friday. Booking is recommended. Tel: (01) 670 7788.

Parnell Summer School: For anyone with an interest in Irish history, politics, literature and society, there is a varied programme of lectures, sightseeing trips, story-telling and music sessions. At Avondale, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, until Sunday. Individual sessions are open to the public. Tel: (01) 287 4124. Email: mtobin@indigo.ie

Scoil Achla: This traditional music school on Achill Island, Co Mayo continues today in Cashel with a family competition in music, song and dance. Tomorrow sees a gala concert featuring Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and Dermot Byrne of Altan. Workshops on the fiddle, harp, tin whistle and uilleann pipes run until Friday. Tel: (098) 47234.