This Writer Walked into a Pub
in Rural Ireland with Claire Keegan This writer walked into a pub in rural Ireland with Claire Keegan. Before long, twenty more writers joined them. A man who was sitting at the bar said to another, “They must be lost!” Last month, I traveled to Ireland to study with internationally-acclaimed author Claire Keegan (“Small Things Like These,” and “Foster,” among her stories). Keegan leads a writers’ retreat at a former convent in a rural town…