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.

Garth Greenwell:profound insight and sharply-observed psychology
(pic Oriette D'Angelo)

Reviewed: Cleaness by Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell's Cleaness is a remarkable series of interlinked stories set in Sofia, whose narrator protagonist is the unnamed gay American teacher exploring love and violence in an atmosphere of prohibition and secrecy in the Bulgarian capital.

Books • 15 May 20

Derek Mooney: "The Eurovision Song Contest is fun and that's what we need right now, and it's what we will crave into the future."

Eurovision brought to book: Derek Mooney's big idea

A new novel, Hold Me Now, draws closely on Irish Eurovision history for its heart-warming love story, whose original idea was dreamed up by Derek Mooney, with help from Niall Hatch and eventual authorship by John MacKenna.

Eurovision Song Contest • 14 May 20

Richard Ford: as close to poetry as prose can get on occasion in his new collection of stories

Reviewed: Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford returns with nine profound stories of love and grief, tales that are exhilarating, reflective and intricately coiled as felt life is.

Books • 20 May 20

The young Jean Genet (as featured in The Criminal Child)

Reviewed: The Criminal Child by Jean Genet

These selected essays bring us once again the somewhat neglected contrarian voice of Jean Genet (1910-1986) including the title essay which is his provocative polemic against liberal or righteous consensus about the nature of juvenile criminality.

Books • 21 Apr 20

Sally Rooney: the author understands a kind of enduring, hard-bitten Irishness

Reviewed: Normal People by Sally Rooney

Paddy Kehoe reviews the best-selling Sally Rooney novel as Lenny Abrahamson's TV adaptation is scheduled to begin on RTÉ One, on Tuesday next.

Book Review • 27 May 21

When All is Ruin Once Again: poignant admonitory note about the Earth and its ecology

When All is Ruin Once Again: A poignant warning note

When All is Ruin Again draws near to poet WB Yeats' tower at Thoorballylee, cleaving close to a poetic vision of destiny, of generations passing, of a language threatened, with a subtly-pitched warning note about mankind's exploitation of the planet.

Reviews • 18 Apr 20

James Joyce (1881-1941) - now is the time...

Four literary classics you finally have the time to read

This is the time for classics, writes Paddy Kehoe, citing four imperishable works of fiction, Ulysses, Moby Dick, The Magic Mountain and Sentimental Education.

Books • 01 Apr 20

Nicole Flattery, author of Show Them A Good Time

Big reads - books to keep cabin fever at bay

Paddy Kehoe looks at a bag-full of compelling novels and short stories to beat the cabin fever blues...

Books • 22 Mar 20

Reviewed: The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi

Published in French in 1954, The Simple Past, a disturbing novel of disturbing scenes of violence, is set in Morocco during the French protectorate, officially relinquished in 1956 when the country gained full independence.

Books • 20 Mar 20

Robert Glück: a radical rearrangement of a holy woman's story

Reviewed: Margery Kempe by Robert Glück

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947, Robert Glück, essayist, novelist and short story writer pioneered New Narrative with Bruce Boone in San Francisco. First published in 1994, his novel Margery Kempe is a fine example of the genre.

Books • 13 Mar 20