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.

It's a risky climb but they're upwardly mobile: the Kim family in Parasite

Parasite: worth seeing if only for after-screen debate

Winner of four Oscars, Palme d'Or 2019 and Best Foreign Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, Parasite boldly attempts satire about Seoul's haves and have-nots.

Movie Review • 17 Feb 20

Tony Williams, gifted, highly lyrical drummer, born Chicago, 1945, died Daly City, California 1997.

Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue

Tony Williams, legendary drummer with Miles Davis Quintet, led his own recording session in Foreign Intrigue, released in 1985. It's an exhilarating album, the players clearly enjoying the ever-buoyant tilt of it

Music • 05 Feb 20

Blake Lively and Jude Law in The Rhythm Section

The Rhythm Section is Bond-lite and little else

Replace Liam Neeson with Blake Lively and what you have in The Rhythm Section is essentially another Taken movie. The film wants to be both earnest and tongue-in cheek, with vintage pop tunes to lighten the earnestness - now which is it, folks?

Movie Review • 29 Jan 20

Tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, trombonist Curtis Fuller with bandleader/drummer Art Blakey at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York in 1964

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Buhaina's Delight

Here we have impeccably groomed music from guys who know their stuff, loose yet supple bebop from a 1961 New Jersey session with Wayne Shorter to the fore on arrangements.

Music • 29 Jan 20

Deirdre Bair: the American biographer knew Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir and wrote acclaimed biographies of both.

Reviewed: Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair

American academic Deirdre Bair won global acclaim for her biographies of the writers Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). In this memoir she recalls those heady years in Paris as she charted the lives her illustrious subjects.

Books • 31 Jan 20

Gerry Murphy: flair for the humour instinct

Reviewed: The Humours of Nothingness by Gerry Murphy

In his latest collection, Cork poet Gerry Murphy is moving in surreal regalia through the fair of poetry, sardonic and mischievous, colourful and catch-all in the best sense.

Books • 01 Feb 20

The late journalist and memoirist Deborah Orr (pic Felicity McCabe)

Reviewed: Motherwell - A Girlhood by Deborah Orr

Deborah Orr's posthumously published memoir is an illumination picture of a Scottish childhood

Books • 11 Mar 20

Divinely-appointed trio: Hussain, McLaughlin, Mahadevan

McLaughlin, Mahadevan, Hussain - Is That So?

John McLaughlin's cautionary, humble words in a CD liner note suggest some nervousness about how his synth guitar might be received. He needn't have worried. Is That So? is an entrancing album of songs from Shankar Mahadevan with Zakier Hussain on tablas.

Music • 22 Jan 20

Varlam Shalamov, pictured in the 1970s, following his release from Kolyma Gulags.

Reviewed: Shalamov's Sketches of the Criminal World

"Shalamov's experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own, " declared Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) of his compatriot, Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) who like Solzhenitsyn and millions of others, endured incarceration in Soviet Gulags

Books • 22 Jan 20

Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz performing in the Netherlands in 1992

Alone Together Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden

Legendary saxophonist Lee Konitz and bassist Charlie Haden team up with pianist Brad Mehldau for this delightful double album of standards, recorded in Los Angeles in 1996

Music • 14 Jan 20