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.

Max Richter performs SLEEP
(Photo Rahi Rezvani)

Wide awake in America with Max Richter's SLEEP

The film Max Richter's SLEEP introduces composer and musician Max Richter and his creative partner Yulia Mahr as a performance of his celebrated eight-hour opus is staged in Los Angeles's Grand Park.

Movie Review • 04 Sep 20

Samuel Beckett: Sonnenberg once told him a joke which he heard years later the Irishman was still trying to translate into French, not long before his death in 1989

Reviewed: Lost Property by Ben Sonnenberg

Son of a wealthy NY art collector, Ben Sonnenberg (1936-2010) spent much time in Europe - Spain, England, France and Greece - while meeting people like Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett. His reissued memoir is a zestfully engaging work.

Books • 20 Aug 20

Gerald Clayton: Quincy is a big fan and Gerald's dad John was one of his "orchestration students"

Gerald Clayton Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard

Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard is mostly an energetic, if not cerebral post-Bop set, with occasional relief from the frenzy, in quiet and wistful moments on tracks like Body and Soul and the pianist-composer's own Envisionings.

Features • 18 Aug 20

Violinist Dominic Ingham (centre) and his Role Models band - exhilarating and worth repeated spins...

Album review: Dominic Ingham Role Models

It's a brave man who launches his violin-led jazz album. But then again, it's brave man who releases any jazz album and Dominic Ingham's debut shows vitality, intelligence and depth on repeated listens.

Features • 11 Aug 20

Jan Six, the father: "It's not about Rembrandt, it's about the first Jan Six."

My Rembrandt - Money and Old Master mania

350 years after his death, the paintings of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) are changing hands for vast sums, but your reviewer would have preferred a less consciously sensational film that told us more about Rembrandt and his art

Movie Review • 04 Sep 20

Paulus Hochgatterer: a Heimat-like rhythm to his lyrical depiction of life in the South Austrian countryside during WW II

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero Paulus Hochgatterer

This absorbing 108-page novella, depicting a World War 11 tragedy involving a young Russian POW is the work of the renowned Austrian writer and child psychologist Paulus Hochgatterer.

Book Review • 03 Aug 20

A full moon lurks behind the Eiffel Tower: Malaparte's mostly nocturnal encounters in Paris are recalled in his unfinished diary

Review: Diary of a Foreigner in Paris Curzio Malaparte

In 1947, on his return to Paris, capital of the country he was familiar with ever since his enlisting in the French Foreign Legion in 1915, the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte embarked on this mostly engaging, unfinished diary.

Culture • 25 Aug 20

Pink-cropped Freddy is stalled at a half-way stage as he dreams of becoming a genuine, fully-grown wolf

100% Wolf and Freddy's dream of being all grown-up

Freddy Lupin is the young werewolf desperate to become 100% Wolf, or, if you like an awkward young teenager anxious to be fully grown in this delightful Australian animation feature.

Entertainment • 31 Jul 20

Broken Law's Cain & Abel conflicted brothers theme

Broken Law is a strikingly engaging movie with an interesting premise and a compelling story of two brothers trying to stay on the right side of the law in unusual circumstances.

Movie Review • 29 Jul 20

Four times Nobel Prize nominee Henri Bosco (1888-1976) who was the fifth and only surviving child of parents of mixed Provencal and Italian descent

Reviewed: Malicroix by Henri Bosco

A young man inherits a forested island in the middle of the river Rhône in southern France where he is strangely compelled to stay despite all manner of fear, anxiety and threat

Book Review • 22 Jul 20