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.

Orlando Figes: evokes the mid-nineteenth century European milieu with particular vividness
(Pic: Phil Fisk)

Book review: The Europeans by Orlando Figes

Ivan Turgenev was judged by Ernest Hemingway to be "the greatest writer there ever was" and this new book traces the Russian author's role in a curious menage-a-trois while affording profound insight into social and political life in 19th century Europe.

Books • 29 Oct 19

Juliette Binoche as Selina and Vincent Macaigne as Léonard in the charming Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction: Binoche shines in Paris book-world movie

Printed books versus e-books, love and infidelity behind the bookshelves, it's all rather topical in this charming, restrained comedy of manners featuring Juliette Binoche - and indeed everybody else - doing star turns

Movies • 11 Oct 19

David Harris, owner of the Bay Café, Dunmore East, Co Waterford in Paul Kelly's work. David was photographed as a young boy for the iconic John Hinde series of postcards. (See original picture on this page)

Revisiting John Hinde's Ireland: Return To Sender

What Irish home, quite aside from many an English and american home, did not have from time to time a John Hinde postcard on the mantelpiece, bearing greetings from family members and friends? The time is gone but revitalised in new images.

Books • 25 Oct 19

Anyone for cake: Bill's cakes en route to various points in Kolkatta

Best Before Death and Bill Drummond's wacky world tour

The KLF's Bill Drummond believes that shining shoes, baking cakes, fashioning wooden beds are all artistic endeavours, so much so that he is on a 12-year tour of the world - 12 cities, 12 countries, the so-called 25 Paintings Tour. Is it art? You decide

Movies • 11 Oct 19

Mary Costello: Making waves with her second novel, The River Capture

10 must-read books this Autumn

The evenings are well drawn in, the blinds are down, the TV is off - surely, no? as are the smartphones and all the devices. You may have books to read, he said advisedly. Paddy Kehoe has some suggestions

Books • 10 Oct 19

Ethan Iverson Quartet, from left to right, Street, Harrell, Iverson, McPherson.

Ethan Iverson - Common Practice

There was a distinct air of Chet Baker about when the Ethan Iverson Quartet took the stage at the Village Vanguard for a week in January 2017 with veteran trumpeter Tom Harrell channeling some of that lost Oklahoma genius

Music • 01 Oct 19

Bleak outlook on the seal hunt: the permafrost is melting and a village is under serious threat in Losing Alaska

Losing Alaska: a telling document for our times

Irish director Tom Burke's Losing Alaska is a telling document for our times, an absorbing account of how one Alaskan community of some 375 souls suffers the impact of global warming as rising water levels threaten their very existence.

Movies • 01 Oct 19

Werewolf dishes up visceral post-Nazi terror

The Polish film Werewolf (original title Wilkolak) shows how credible horror can be achieved on film - Hollywood could learn a thing or two but probably wouldn't be interested

Movies • 01 Oct 19

Programme subjects Sophia Murphy, left and Amy Dunne, on right, with interviewer Orla O'Donnell from the Finné series

Preview: Finné's Cathartic Human Stories

TG4's six-part documentary series Finné returns on Wednesday with revealing human stories. Paddy Kehoe reports.

Television • 01 Oct 19

McCoy Tyner performs at North Sea Jazz festival July 2017 in Rotterdam

McCoyTyner Trio - Inception

Inception, pianist McCoy Tyner's first album as leader, released in 1962, shines with early promise and that lightning-fast finger work on the opener Inception itself is quite remarkable.

Music • 24 Sep 19