Cape Clear’s the place to be, so the story goes
A boon to local tourism, it has run every year — with the exception of 2001, when it was a casualty of the foot-and-mouth crisis — since 1994.
The festival was cooked up by an American couple, Chuck and Nell Kruger. The pair moved to Cape Clear Island in 1992. They’d come to the island to unwind after working as teachers in Switzerland. They had many ideas about what to do with their spare time, including running a small animal zoo on their farm, before hitting on the notion of a storytelling festival.
