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.

Donnacha Dennehy: the composer's ambitious new work commemorates The Great Famine through two voices and a 20-piece ensemble

Music review: Donnacha Dennehy The Hunger

Commissioned by the twenty-piece mini-orchestra Alarm Will Sound, Donnacha Dennehy's ambitious 'docu cantata' The Hunger approaches an Irish Famine theme slantwise and with a kind of musical asperity and ruefulness

Music • 29 Aug 19

The Souvenir mines an elegiac 1980s London seam

A young film student begins a relationship with a British Foreign Office man with rocky results in Joanna Hogg's absorbing film, which works in large part on improvisatory dialogue.

Movies • 28 Aug 19

Reviewed: Going Home by Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh follows his Palestinian Walks, albeit 12 years later, with Going Home, a walk through Ramallah over the course of one day, June 5, 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation.

Books • 27 Aug 19

Friedrich Nietzsche: with friends like these . .

Reviewed: I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

I am Dynamite!, Sue Prideaux's compelling biography of the philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) which won the Hawthornden Prize this year, has just appeared in paperback.

Books • 29 Aug 19

Hundreds of protesters gathered in solidarity with political prisoners last February at Barcelona's Plaça Catalunya.

Reviewed: After the Fall by Tobias Buck

Tobias Buck's new book is a snapshot of how Spain stands politically and culturally at present, including the Catalan bid for independence. The journalist-author reported on the country for The Financial Times between 2012 and 2017.

Books • 28 Aug 19

Dream team: Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell pictured in 2006

Reviewed: The Wichita Lineman by Dylan Jones

The late Glen Campbell, well, he just wasn't cool once upon a time, was he? Yet as the years went on, he gained solid cred and so did the man who wrote the songs for him, Jimmy Webb, whose greatest creation may well be The Wichita Lineman.

Books • 22 Aug 19

Deborah Levy does not succeed with The Man Who Saw Everything

Reviewed: The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy has been short-listed for the Man Booker prize twice for Swimming Home and Hot Milk and she has proved herself to be a perceptive fiction writer. Her new novel, long-listed for this year's Booker, flails around a limp, directionless tale.

Books • 26 Aug 19

Dripping lead-hot badness: John Cusack as Dutch, serial killer with impunity

Never Grow Old: John Cusack plays evil incarnate

Black as pitch, Never Grow Old is a convincing thriller set in 1849 in an American settlement ruled over by a psychopathic thug, played with consummate, unadulterated evil by John Cusack.

Movie Review • 22 Aug 19

Asier Etzeandia and Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory shows Almodóvar at his finest

Almodóvar's 21st feature, Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) is rich with reflective passages and profound encounters, mediated through brilliant cinematography and enhanced by a shimmering score from Alberto Iglesias.

Movies • 27 Aug 19

Lean on me: Transit plays out in a series of mysterious arrivals and departures

Transit - Nazi occupation story given a modern spin

Noirish, elemental and stark, Transit has the feel of a Kafkaesque chamber piece, set in a Marseille under siege and impending occupation.

Movie Review • 15 Aug 19