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.

Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson circa 1970

Review: Joe Henderson - The State of the Tenor Vol 1

Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson's three 1985 performances at the Vanguard were attended by his students and saxophone players in general, who were there to study his musical expertise or maybe just enjoy the bebop. This vinyl reissue is a welcome reprise.

Music • 08 Feb 21

Lou Donaldson performs with Pat Bianchi on the organ at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 2, 2015

Album review: Lou Donaldson Alligator Boogaloo

A young George Benson on guitar joins alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson's team for this pleasing 1967 vinyl reissue that is soaked in swing and R 'n B

Music • 12 Jan 21

Megan Nolan publishes her debut novel, Acts Of Desperation, this spring

A new leaf - new Irish books for 2021

Irish fiction continues to thrive and the year will be a feast of novels and shorts stories ready for publication, some of them deferred from 2020.

Books • 11 Jan 21

The Acropolis in Athens, Greece in a photograph taken on Saturday, May 23, 2020

Reviewed: Greece - Biography of a Modern Nation

The author began writing his fascinating story of Greece in August 2015, just a month after the country had for the third time barely avoided exit from the Eurozone which, he argues, would have been chaotic and damaging, not just in Greece.

Books • 08 Jan 21

Brooklyn Bridge: many of O Henry's characters have come to New York hoping for uplift, be it financial, social or spiritual

Reviewed: The Cop and the Anthem by O Henry

O Henry was born William Porter in North Carolina in 1862 and he died in New York in 1910. The Cop and the Anthem is the perfect introduction to a playfully florid writer whose stories charm endlessly but also reveal home truths about the human psyche.

Books • 07 Jan 21

Julian Baggini: a committed Catholic as a young teenager, he has been an atheist all of his adult life since

Book review: The Godless Gospel by Julian Baggini

Some of the parables of Jesus are cryptic enough to need the kind of elucidation offered respectfully and incisively by Julian Baggini in his fascinating new book.

Books • 01 Jan 21

Cats: We feel so fragile just for being humans that it's almost rubbing it in to read how great these creatures are

Feline Philosophy Cats and the Meaning of Life - Gray

After you have finished reading John Gray's short book on cats and how they differ from us humans, you feel it might be a better idea to be a cat after all, writes Paddy Kehoe

Books • 29 Dec 20

Author Paul Howard with one of the series of Ross O'Carroll plaques erected in 2014 in honour of the, er, eminent Southsider

Book review: Braywatch by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Against his better judgement and basic instincts, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly has fallen for the town of Bray, which he scorned mercilessly in previous adventures.

Books • 22 Dec 20

Ben Schott: a bit too caught up with references and the incidentals, which Wodehouse never made a big deal of

Jeeves and the Leap of Faith by Ben Schott

In his second published outing in PG Wodehouse land, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith, Ben Schott drives a much too freighted plot vehicle

Books • 22 Dec 20

Black Lives Matter Protesters March in Chicago in July. Wright's book about that city, first published in 1940, is still relevant in terms of issues concerning alienation and discrimination

Book review: Native Son by Richard Wright

The deep-seated problems of racial discrimination, alienation and societal or social disorientation which informed Richard Wright's classic novel, Native Son, still abide in America for millions of black people, eighty years after its publication in 1940

Book Review • 15 Dec 20