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.

Dorothy Gallagher: markedly more of a John Prine fan than her late New York intelligentsia husband Ben Sonnenberg

Reviewed: Stories I Forget to Tell You

Dorothy Gallagher recalls her years of marriage to the New York-born editor and translator Ben Sonnenberg (1936-2010) in this affecting but also humorous 88-page memoir.

Books • 11 Nov 20

Director Éric Lartigau affords such undue prominence to social media and the mobile phone that it's like he's been asleep for the last ten years

#IAmHere fails to realise potential for smart rom-com

The premise of #IAmHere (#Jesuislà) sounds great, as divorced French chef Stéphane heads off on impulse to Seoul to check out the Korean lady he has been communicating with. In truth, the film fizzles and sags a bit

Movie Review • 11 Nov 20

James Joyce whose early collection, Dubliners, is represented by An Encounter in Philip Hensher's latest anthology of stories

Reviewed: The Golden Age of British Short Stories

Philip Hensher must have found some strange extension of daily hours to find time to write fiction, as he has read surely hundreds of short stories to reach selections for five volumes, the latest of which has just arrived, covering the period 1890-1914.

Books • 10 Nov 20

A large crowd outside the door of Mountjoy prison on the day of Kevin Barry's execution. November 1, 1920

Reviewed: The Darkness Echoing by Gillian O'Brien

Gillian O'Brien investigates the dark, often macabre side of Irish history through famine, martyrdom, maritime disaster and the strictures of incarceration in her fascinating new study.

Books • 09 Nov 20

John Creedon with the vintage VW van that took him around Ireland for the RTÉ One series Creedons' Epic East and Creedon's Wild Atlantic Way

Reviewed: That Place We Call Home by John Creedon

In his new book, John Creedon writes on the rich Irish tapestry showing through the Hiberno-English overlay, a feature which intrigues the ebullient Corkonian, a keen interest which is infectious.

Books • 07 Nov 20

Cellist Vedran Smailovic plays Strauss in the bombed National Library in Sarajevo on September 2 1992

Reviewed: Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden

Libraries and archival institutions are having a hard time of it, according to Richard Ovenden whose illuminating study charts endemic assault on knowledge through the centuries.

Books • 04 Nov 20

John Coltrane: fizzing, bubbling out of the primordial earth on A Love Supreme

Album review - John Coltrane: A Love Supreme/Ballads

Recorded in December of 1964 and released in 1965, two years before his death at the age of forty, A Love Supreme is saxophonist John Coltrane's enduring musical account of finding - and settling in - a spiritual way to live.

Features • 03 Nov 20

William Butler Yeats: Have not poetry and music arisen out of the sounds the enchanters made to help their imagination to enchant?

Reviewed: Yeats Now by Joseph M Hassett

In his thought-provoking new work, Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life, Joseph M Hassett investigates the poetic legacy of WB Yeats, and examines how th poems echo and reverberate in the canon of contemporary Irish poets.

Books • 03 Nov 20

Richard Nairn: the veteran ecologist and founding director of BirdWatch Ireland on the rearing of his mature oaks.

Book Review: Wild Woods by Richard Nairn

The celebrated Irish ecologist Richard Nairn found himself observing the moods and seasons of the small woodland which he once bought in County Wicklow and the summary of his quiet study became the material for this fascinating 300-page work.

Book Review • 02 Nov 20

Aerial shot of the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise, part of Paul Clements' journey along the Shannon banks.

Reviewed: Shannon Country by Paul Clements

Travel writer Paul Clements retraces the River Shannon journey of fellow traveller Richard Hayward in this new work, which is in part a snapshot of where we are are now in terms of heritage, as well as being an astute account of the self-same heritage.

Book Review • 29 Oct 20