Paddy Kehoe

Multimedia Journalist

Paddy Kehoe has been working in journalism for 27 years. A former teacher, he began his career with In Dublin and Magill magazines, and he wrote theatre reviews for the Sunday Tribune and film reviews for Irish Stage & Screen magazine.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays scrupulous and Southern-accented Lt-Colonel Stuart Couch

The Mauritanian: Compelling Guantanamo Diary adaptation

Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Tahar Rahim convincingly inhabit their roles in this compelling post-9/11 legal drama, based on Mohamedou Ould Salahi's real life account, Guantanamo Diary, and mostly played out in the infamous US Cuban enclave

Movie Review • 02 Apr 21

Carol, starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. The Todd Haynes-directed film was based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, The Price of Salt.

Reviewed: The Life of Patricia Highsmith

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires - The Life of Patricia Highsmith is the third biographical engagement with the troubled life, and it appears on the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth.

Books • 15 Mar 21

A Japanese manuscript at Dublin's Chester Beatty Library. The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, 100 Poems by 100 poets revel in long distance love and, very probably infatuation too, along with other matters.

Review: A Gap in the Clouds - Japanese poems translated

Poet and translator have done a highly impressive job, working through the undergrowth and the overgrowth of the Japanese Tanka, the short poems that comprise the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, the 100 Poems by 100 poets which were complied around 1235.

Books • 09 Mar 21

A scene from Town of Strangers: Chloe and her friend trying out dance moves

Film Review: Town of Strangers and a small town theme

In Town of Strangers, the viewer can sense the director's empathy, one is aware of a listening ear for the people who turned up for audition and ended up telling their personal stories

Movie • 10 Mar 21

A Nigerian youth waves the Nigerian national flag in protest against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos last October.

Reviewed: What Britain Did to Nigeria by Max Siollun

Historian Max Siollun asks three questions in his fascinating new study – Why did Britain come to Nigeria? What did Britain do to Nigeria? How did the local people react to British presence? The answers are absorbing.

Books • 04 Mar 21

Bathing in the River Thames at Runnymede in a bygone age. Wollheim, the author of the much-acclaimed Germs, spent his early years in Surrey.

Reviewed: Germs By Richard Wollheim

First published posthumously in 2004, Richard Wollheim's classic memoir of a sensitive boyhood proves fascinating for its deep delving into childhood consciousness.

Books • 03 Mar 21

Megha Majumdar: constant turmoil and simmering violence boil through her thriller-like debut novel

Reviewed: A Burning by Megha Majumdar

Dispiriting insights into life in India suggest that Megha Majumdar will not be invited to write purple prose for the Bengal tourist authority following her explosive debut, set against a backdrop of corrupt politics and tension between Hindus and Muslims

Books • 25 Feb 21

Federico Falco: a salty knowingness about people and the way they operate, be it Argentina or anywhere

(Picture Véronica Maggi)

Book review: A Perfect Cemetery by Federico Falco

Federico Falco's tales could easily slip under the radar but these rich and authentic portraits of Argentinian lives are well worth seeking out

Books • 19 Feb 21

Manuel Vilas: Ordesa is a classic of autofiction, not to be missed

Book review: Ordesa by Manuel Vilas

Manuel Vilas' latest work, his first to be translated into English, won France's Prix Femina Etranger in 2019, and the 291-page novel has sold over 100,000 copies in the author's native Spain. The tale is a classic of Autofiction.

Books • 16 Feb 21

Giorgione, Laura, 1506, oil on wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Bridgeman Images

Reviewed: A pair of outstanding new art books

Reaktion Books have just issued enticing studies, replete with the paintings, of the artists Piero della Francesca and Giorgione as part of their ongoing Renaissance Lives series.

Books • 12 Feb 21