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Kennys In the Media

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Kennys are delighted to announce this week the opening of a new Bookshop in the Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road, Galway. With over 50,000 titles covering hundreds of metres of shelving in over 700 square metres of retail space dedicated to books, this is a book lovers paradise!


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By Ronnie O'Gorman

Perhaps the ‘daftest’ thing the late Maureen and Des Kenny ever did was to open an art gallery, the first of its kind outside Dublin and Cork, in Salthill in Race Week, in 1968, 40 years ago. There was little or no money for art in those days, but there were plenty of eager artists. The first exhibition, in the downstairs of their home, was a mixture of paintings and sculpture by Gerry and Justin Laffin, Stepanic McNamee and John Behan. A feature of the Kenny ‘openings’ in those days was that wine, teas, and coffees were served. People like myself who enjoyed the glass of wine more than the art, went along and stayed late. You usually met the same people at every exhibition; and were likely to meet them again at other ‘openings’ later the same evening.


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It was with a profound sense of loss that I heard of the death, last Tuesday, of Maureen Kenny. Countless people, throughout Ireland and around the world, who had, at one time or another, crossed the threshold of the bookshop on High Street, will share this sense of loss, and, I should add, an equally profound sense of gratitude for her life and achievements.When I arrived in Galway from Chicago in October 1967, one of the first places I stumbled across in my early exploration of a very different town than the one we know today was Kenny’s Bookshop.

By Jeff O’Connell

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A vital part of Old Galway disappeared with the passing of Maureen Kenny last Tuesday. Aged 89, she was the face of Kenny's Bookshop, which is now an art gallery, but remains top of the lists of must-see places for visitors to the City of the Tribes.


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A vital part of Old Galway disappeared with the passing of Maureen Kenny last Tuesday.Aged 89, she was the face of Kenny's Bookshop, which is now an art gallery, but remains top of the lists of must-see places for visitors to the City of the Tribes.Up to a few years ago, she continued her regime of taking her place behind the counter on the six working days of the shop within the nooks and crannies in High St.

Published March 30th, 2008

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Seamus Heaney once described Maureen Kenny, who has died aged 89, as "the Madonna of the Manuscripts", an accurate description for a woman who devoted most of her life to the promotion of new Irish writers and artists.

Maureen was born in Glebe Street, Mohill, Co Leitrim, the eldest of three children. Her father died suddenly when she was four years old leaving her mother with three young children and a business she knew nothing about. Next door was a Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) barracks which was taken over by the black and tans. On a couple of occasions they took the infant Maureen and used her as a human shield on top of their truck while driving around Mohill randomly shooting in through windows.


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Writers, academics and representatives of Galway's arts community attended the funeral yesterday of bookseller Maureen Kenny who died earlier this week in her 90th year.

The Mayor of Galway, Cllr Tom Costello (Lab), and former minister and Progressive Democrats founder Bobby Molloy were among several hundred people present in the city's Augustinian Church for the funeral Mass, which was celebrated by Fr Dick Lyng.


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Maureen Kenny, “the doyenne of the bookselling tradition in Galway”, has died, but the legacy of what she and her husband created will live on in The Kenny Gallery, Kenny’s Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd, and Kennys.ie.

Maureen Kenny (nee Canning) passed away on Tuesday March 25 in Pointe Boise, Salthill.


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