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.

Gannets feeding frenzy - one of the remarkable images in Ken O'Sullivan's wonderful new book

Reviewed: Stories From the Deep by Ken O'Sullivan

Ken O'Sullivan's new book is a fascinating account of his formation as conservationist, documentary film-maker and underwater cameraman.

Books • 20 Nov 19

I think I'm going back: the superb Daniel Auteuil in La Belle Époque, with Guillaume Canet, on right

La Belle Époque: an enticing daydream fantasy realised

La Belle Époque's two screenings at the IFI's recent French Film Festival sold out in advance. It's an appealing fantasy in which Daniel Auteuil's sixty-something year old cartoonist steps back to a specific day, May 16, 1974

Movies • 22 Nov 19

Trumpeter Donald Byrd and his group The Blackbyrds perform on the TV show Soul Train, sometime around 1977 in LA

Review: Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knights

37 minutes and some seconds of sweetly fermenting funk from 1971 is what you get on Donald Byrd's sublimely groovy Ethiopian Knights, out again on vinyl

Music • 14 Nov 19

Billie Holiday (1915-1959) seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Hardwick in The Red Thread

Book Review: The Red Thread 20 years of NYRB Classics

An itinerary or road book, rather than a 'greatest hits', according to its editor Edwin Frank, The Red Thread assembles choice cuts form 20 years of the unfailingly discerning publishing institution, NYRB Classics.

Culture • 13 Nov 19

Like Spotlight, The Report is solid but not exceptional

Hot on the heels of the engaging satire, The Laundromat, comes The Report, another Steven Soderbergh/Scott Z Burns collaboration. However, both films could not be more different, one is a skittish farce, the other a serious film about the CIA.

Movies • 22 Nov 19

Little Green Car: Buy a greener electric/hybrid vehicle if you need to buy a car says Luke Eastwood

How to Save the Planet - Luke Eastwood

The steps are simple, writes Luke Eastwood in his new booklet - it's just requires being conscious of what you are doing and remembering to keep on doing it when it comes to saving our precious Earth.

Culture • 11 Nov 19

John Coltrane: reworking recently recorded material for a film score

Blue World - John Coltrane

John Coltrane reworked his previously-released material - Out of This World and Naima - for Giles Groulx's breakthrough film, Le Chat dans Le Sac, back in 1964. One for dedicated aficionados.

Music • 11 Nov 19

Bill Laurance: scenic ships in the night

Bill Laurance & WDR Big Band - Live at the Philharmonie

English composer Bill Laurance listened to Radiohead and Roni Size as a young music fan and watched the A-Team. These influences - we will take his word for it - have fed his brand of funk-lite smoothness on this live recording with the WDR Big Band

Music • 16 Nov 19

What's the flight-time, guys?Chick in Cleveland, sometime in 2016..

Chick Corea - Trilogy 2

Jazz pianist Chick Corea has something like 22 Grammy awards to his name and he is jazz royalty for many's the year. His new record, a 2-CD set, is an assured meeting of minds, featuring bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade.

Music • 05 Nov 19

Vyvienne Long: vulnerability and insidious power

Vyvienne Long - A Lifetime of High Fives

Vyvienne Long returns with a dark-hued album of her own songs, replete with appealing chamber arrangements and choral work

Music • 05 Nov 19