Summer is also the season when traditional festivals, horse tournaments, music festivals, and irresistible food fairs are concentrated.
In the county of Tipperary, for example, on the first weekend of August, the Irish Rock Festival is held; in Tralee, in the county of Kerry, also in August, the horse races of the Dublin Horse Show are very popular, and in Galway, in the first half of September, the Galway Oyster Festival, the festival of delicious local oysters, is a big hit.
