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 youthful Graham Greene: a dalliance with death and manic depression at its insidious work

Reviewed: The Life & Times Of Graham Greene

This new 586-page biography from Professor Richard Greene - no relation - considers Graham Greene, the writer and the public man, the unflinching traveller into trouble and forensic investigator into the human condition

Books • 12 Feb 21

Shirley Hazzard: epigrammatic, impish wisdom and observational acuity

Reviewed: The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard

There is no apology in Shirley Hazzard's stories about her characters' milieu, they are in the main cultivated people, with some means at their disposal.

Books • 03 Feb 21

Kenny Dorham: a Cubano-tinged infectious beat

Album Review: Una Mas - Kenny Dorham

Trumpeter Kenny Dorham rustles up a bright, airy and indeed Cubano-tinged selection of tunes on Una Mas, which was first issued in 1963 and now reissued as a vinyl

Music • 04 Feb 21

Freddie Hubbard plays Chicago, September 4, 1982: Sunny, tuneful material in the main

Album review: Freddie Hubbard Hub-Tones

Born in 1938, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was only 25 when he recorded this charming 1963 set, which features James Spaulding on alto sax and flute, with pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Clifford Jarvis also on board

Music • 27 Jan 21

The 90th Birthday of Otto von Habsburg in 2002. L-R: von Habsburg, Archduke Georg and the then prince Felipe of Spain, now that country's King

Reviewed: The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady

Martyn Rady's magisterial history proves a pleasurably accessible work, telling the story of Europe's greatest dynasty which ruled an empire on which the sun never set, from the greater part of Europe to Peru and the Philippines.

Books • 27 Jan 21

Art Blakey plays the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands in 1990

Review: Indestructible Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Horns in a tight ensemble setting, with borrowings from rhythm 'n' blues and gospel in the mix - the Jazz Messengers were at their musical peak when Art Blakey led them on this set from 1964, his last for Blue Note

Music • 26 Jan 21

The Brandenburg Gate - the locale of Gabriele Tergit's best-known novel is Berlin in the 1920s.

Book review: Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabriele Tergit

The writer Gabriele Tergit used her journalistic experience during the Weimar Republic to pen her most popular novel in which some recent reviewers have seen echoes of Trump's America and the rise of extreme right-wing groups.

Books • 25 Jan 21

Bobby Hutcherson: light-fingered vibes filigree in the company of the stout-sounding tenor player Joe Henderson and others

Album review: Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker

This warm, companionable session featuring ace vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's first Blue Note session under his own name was recorded in December 1969, but not released until 1999

Music • 20 Jan 21

John Walsh: an admirable, gutsy quest for self-fulfillment through Flamenco guitar. (All photos Magda Kacperska)

Album review: John Walsh - Irlandalucía

Ireland should be proud of John Walsh, who has gained eminence in Spain, and indeed further afield for his brilliant mastery of Flamenco guitar, as demonstrated on his remarkable debut album

Music • 19 Jan 21

Stanley Turrentine performs in Chicago, July 14, 1979

Album review Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At

Saturated in soul and blues, That's Where It's At is a warmly appealing piece of work from saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, which was first released in 1962 and is now reissued on vinyl

Music • 27 Jan 21