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Kennys In the Media

Kenny's, across the country in High Street, a short, easy-to-find shopping lane in the middle of Galway - a clean prosperous, old- looking city of 40,000 where people angle for healthy fish in the Corrib River right in the middle of town - was opened in 1940 by the parents of Desmond Kenny his two sisters and four brothers. They still run the business, too busy keeping track of its 150,000 titles and growing art gallery to complain about much. "Mother came to University College to study commerce. Father was studying humanities," said Mr. Kenny. "There was no work in Galway, and they didn't want to emigrate, so they started a book shop in a rented room."


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Tom Kenny writing about his parents Des (R.I.P) and Maureen, who opened their Galway bookshop 48 years ago.My father, Des Kenny, was born in Galway on 13th October, 1917. The other miracle of that day, he will tell you, occurred in Fatima. His father Tom was a noted journalist and he grew up with the sound of typewriters and with printers ink in his fingernails.My mother, Maureen Canning, was born in Mohill, Co. Leitrim. Her father died while she was very young and she was reared by her mother, Jane, a remarkable lady, who placed a lot of emphasis on education.


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