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.

The Band's Levon Helm: talent to beat, well, The Band

Music review: The Band - The Band

One of the greatest tragedies of twentieth century music was the almost shambolic first disbandment of The Band, whose second album, a generous double, has just been re-issued on vinyl

Music • 31 Jan 20

Viktoria Miroshnichenko as Iya in Beanpole

Beanpole's relentless bleakness fails to grasp

Beanpole should in theory work as a cinematic enterprise and its intense performances will certainly move those who without effort directly engage with its trauma, but it seemed over-acted and over-stylised to your reviewer.

Movies • 08 Jan 20

Reviewed: Julio Ramón Ribeyro's Word of the Speechless

The many short stories of the Peruvian author Julio Ramón Ribeyro should be much better known and there is no excuse now in these fluent new translations from Katherine Silver.

Books • 10 Dec 19

So Long, My Son - The pain imposed by China's One-Child Policy explored in Wang Xiaoshuai's masterpiece

So Long, My Son: a deeply moving Chinese drama

So Long, My Son, whose original title in Mandarin is Di Jiu Tian Chang, is an easily accessible, beautifully-wrought work of cinema whose universal human story of heartbreak and tragedy is spellbinding.

Movie Review • 12 Dec 19

Conor O'Sullivan - His Mind Invents Its Own Tragedy

There is a lighter touch to these new songs from Cork troubadour Conor O'Sullivan, the dark import and wryly reflective vision may not have changed much, but some of the music seems airier, more buoyant

Album Review • 28 Nov 19

Author and mariner Philip Marsden (pic Charlotte Hobson)

Reviewed: The Summer Isles by Philip Marsden

Travel writer, sailor and anthropologist Philip Marsden tacks along Ireland's western shore en route to the so-called Summer Isles, off Scotland's Western coast, in what is a curate's egg of a book.

Books • 12 Dec 19

John Chester nursing Emma on The Biggest Little Farm in Ventura County

The Biggest Little Farm: a charming feel-good doc

Friends told John and Molly Chester that attempting to farm in harmony with nature would be reckless, if not impossible. Nevertheless, the couple cheerfully bought a farm of effectively dead soil in Ventura County, as this charming, offbeat film documents

Film Review • 27 Nov 19

Charles Lloyd as he is today. The recordings under review catch him as a young tenor saxophonist and flute-player in 1967

Charles Lloyd Quartet - Montreux Jazz Festival 1967

These are historic recordings in that Charles Lloyd was the first international artist to grace the stage at the inaugural Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 and these are the tapes of that momentous event

Music • 26 Nov 19

Knives Out: infantile slapstick in Agatha Christie mode

Knives Out is a trite, pale comedy that tries to be as infantile as it can be within the bounds of adult entertainment.

Movie Review • 27 Nov 19

Album review: Christy Moore - Magic Nights

Christy Moore returns in time for Christmas with a new live album featuring 26 tracks across two CDs which show that authentic voice in fine fettle still.

Music • 26 Nov 19