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.

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: practical and sensible about scene-setting

Review: Little Red and Other Stories Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's knowing yet curious narrative stance makes her stories ideal book club material, even ideal for book clubs of one

Book Review • 30 Nov 20

John Lanchester: hoary tales of mystery and imagination, with delightful hints of leg-pull, wind-up and parody of the great ghost story authors

Reviewed: Reality and other Stories by John Lanchester

John Lanchester is the author of Capital, the best-selling novel which was later adapted for TV starring Toby Jones. Here he turns his hand to short stories, which are deliciously captivating in a Roald Dahl kind of way

Books • 01 Dec 20

Martin Luther King: delineates two forces between which he finds himself standing

Reviewed: Writing Politics - An Anthology

The works of Edmund Burke, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King in this collection of essays which showcases the best of trenchant writing on political ferment and dissent.

Books • 25 Nov 20

Bust of Balzac by David d'Angers. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Sygma via Getty Images)

Reviewed: Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks analyses the best-known characters in Balzac's novels in this rigorously perceptive work which tells us as much not just about French life at the time as indeed home truths about any of our lives, in resonant and unerringly apt observations

Books • 30 Nov 20

John Prine: Close attention to the details of people's lives, often people on the slide, or in trouble

Album review John Prine - Crooked Piece of Time

This new boxed-set collection from the late, great singer-songwriter contains seven remastered studio albums, from his Asylum/Atlantic/Rhino years, 1971-1980

Music • 03 Dec 20

À L'abordage: part road movie, part Rohmer-esque account of youthful amours

À L'abordage and young love's sweet song of the South

Felix, a young nurse, falls in love with a girl named Alma at an open-air party by the Seine and follows her, though uninvited, to the south of France in this charming yet curiously touching drama, which expertly handles the highs and lows of young love

Movies • 13 Nov 20

Isabelle Huppert: a double life as her income markedly improves in Mama Weed

Huppert triumphs in zany crime caper Mama Weed

Mama Weed - original title La Daronne, which means The Matron - stars Isabelle Huppert as an Arabic/French translator for the Paris police. Being short of money, she eventually succumbs to doing business with the Moroccan drug mafia

Movies • 13 Nov 20

Patricia Racette as Katerina Lvovna Ismailova and John Daszak as Sergei in the English National Opera's production of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the London Coliseum in 2015.

Reviewed: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov

Six longer short stories, as it were, almost novellas, are the matter in hand from the pen of the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895) whose Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was famously adapted for Dmitri Shoskatovich's opera of the same name.

Books • 13 Nov 20

Mariana Otero, director of Looking for Gilles Caron (Histoire d'un Regard), which is available to rent on IFI@Home from Sunday November 22

Film review: Looking for Gilles Caron

Looking for Gilles Caron (Histoire d'un Regard) documents the life of French photographer Gilles Caron, who went missing in Cambodia in 1970 at the age of thirty, through some of the startling, often moving 100,000 images which he took

Movies • 13 Nov 20

The photo call from Cannes Film Festival 2007 for The Man from London, starring Tilda Swinton and directed by Bela Tarr

Reviewed: The Man from London by Georges Simenon

The story of Bela Tarr's extraordinary English language film 2007 film of Georges Simenon's 1934 novel, The Man from London, starring Tilda Swinton, is as strange as, well, fiction. However, do rather explore the novel, it is the work of a crime master .

Books • 12 Nov 20