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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 Art of Racing in the Rain - old-fashioned weepie

This old-fashioned weepie spends perhaps too much time being morbid but then again what weepie doesn't? Ultimately, there is redemption of a kind mediated through the gnarled wisdom of the dog narrator
Movies • 08 Aug 19

Album review: John Coltrane: 3 Essential Albums

For an album which has a kind of cult following still, it's still hard to credit that Blue Train was recorded in one day, September 15, 1957, at the legendary Van Gelder studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Music Reviews • 08 Aug 19

Gaza: moving stories from the beleaguered strip of land

The Egyptian and Israeli borders are closed, the fishing limit is a meager 3 km and young people in the prime of their lives cannot realize their aspirations. Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell's captivating film shows the harsh reality of life in Gaza.
Film Review • 08 Aug 19

The Sun is Also a Star: far-fetched romance which works

It's earnest and cheesy and its reliance on daft coincidence is off the scale, but that may well be true of almost every fictional romance ever made. So bear with it because there is something cute and winning about this immigration-themed movie
Movies • 09 Aug 19

The Lure of the East: Lafcadio Hearn's Japan

Master of the supernatural, the magical and the ghoulish, the work of Patrick, or Paddy Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is enjoying a revival not least with this new edition of Japanese Ghost Stories, just reissued by Penguin.
Books • 01 Aug 19

Album review: Monkey House – Friday

Don Breithaupt, song-writer, singer, general Rhodes, synth and Wurlitzer man for Monkey House, never lost Rikki's number and his band of chilled, consummate musicians out-Steely the Dan themselves on much of their material
Album Review • 03 Aug 19

Book review: A King Alone by Jean Giono

Jean Giono's 1947 novel concerning a spate of mysterious disappearances and the eccentric French policeman attached to solving them is decidedly off-beat.
Culture • 18 Aug 19

Michel Petrucciani - 3 Essential Albums

Michel Petrucciani (1962-1999) suffered from osteogenensis imperfect, a bone disease which stunted his physical development but did not hinder his musical progress, as he became a hugely popular jazz pianist in the USA.
Music Reviews • 25 Jul 19

Review: Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love

Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian woman, was a constant presence throughout the singer Leonard Cohen's life. Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love documents their relationship evenly and sensitively.
Film Review • 23 Jul 19

Summer Reads: books for your beach list

Paddy Kehoe has 17 recommendations for your holiday reading this summer, come rain or shine . .
Books • 24 Jul 19

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