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 then Prince Felipe of Spain and his father King Juan Carlos at the abdication ceremony at the Royal Palace, Madrid June 18, 2014

Reviewed: A People Betrayed by Paul Preston

The Liverpool-born historian Paul Preston is the best-known historian of the Spanish Civil War in all its facets and personalities. His latest work charts a divisive history of corruption at the highest levels in Spain.

Books • 22 Sep 20

Sociologist and lifelong dog-lover Tom Inglis: 18 years with his beloved Pepe

Reviewed: To Love a Dog by Tom Inglis

Tom Inglis's 182-page memoir concerning his dog Pepe combines telling detail from an intimate 18-year relationship with thought-provoking observations on how humans and dogs have interacted from ancient times up to the present.

Books • 11 Sep 20

Album review: Andrew Hill Smoke Stack

Pianist Andrew Hill's appealing if challenging Blue Note album from 1966 takes no prisoners, you'd better be into improv and wandering airs.

Music • 10 Sep 20

Manchán Magan: his new book explores how the Irish landscape and language are indivisible.

Reviewed: Thirty Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan

Maybe the best way to understand place names is to see them as thresholds, writes Manchán Magan whose new 375-page work is an accessible yet erudite stroll back through the Irish landscape and the lore it still provides for those with ears to hear.

Books • 12 Sep 20

David Kynaston at an Aldershot game (Photo Lucy Kynaston)

Reviewed: Shots in the Dark by David Kynaston

Historian David Kynaston's diary of a year following the Shots, Aldershot Town - while making inter alia observations on Brexit and Trump - is not without its charm. However, detailed recaps of games are not particularly interesting to the general reader.

Books • 09 Sep 20

Tenor legend Hank Mobley shines on the previously unreleased Just Coolin.'

Review: Just Coolin' Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

This previously unreleased studio album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers from 1959 should be Mannah from heaven for lovers of curiously easeful hard bop.

Features • 03 Sep 20

The American trumpeter Kenny Dorham pictured circa 1970: additional articulateness and a surer voice already in evidence in 1964

Album review: Kenny Dorham Trompeta Toccata

The final album as leader from trumpeter Kenny Dorham, reissued on vinyl from the original 1964 release, thrives on tremulous sweetness and a flighty but controlled lyricism.

Kenny Dorham • 02 Sep 20

Saxophonist Jimmy Heath performing in 2016 in New York

Album review: Jimmy Heath Love Letter

This ain't no bebop disco, this ain't no Roland Kirk meditation or Sonny Rollins blast-out, but rather an elegant treatment of eight ballads from saxophonist Jimmy Heath, who died in January of this year, aged 93

Jimmy Heath Love Letter • 01 Sep 20

Ingvar Sigurdsson and Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir in A White, White Day

A White, White Day's slow-burn revenge drama

The tormented policeman Ingimundir tries to hold things together in a starkly remote Icelandic outpost before the desire for revenge takes over in Hlynur Palmason's compelling drama.

Movie Review • 04 Sep 20

Ekwensi's most famous novel is set in an unnamed city which closely resembles the Nigerian capital, Lagos, Africa's most populous city.

Reviewed: People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi

The renowned Nigerian author Cyprian Ekwensi (1921-2007) was one of the first authors to be selected for the pioneering Heinemann African Writers Series by its editor, Ekwensi's fellow countryman, Chinua Achebe.

Books • 26 Aug 20