Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery
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Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Online at . Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used & rare books.
Galway, Ireland
Joined December 2009
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Don't forget your Irish retailer will provide an alternative. Shop Irish, shop local.
Amazon is to open its first warehouse, or fulfilment centre, in the Republic of Ireland, creating 500 new jobs to help meet customer demand.
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A lady Sharon called into us today to do her Christmas book shopping, which she normally does on Amazon and she wanted to change that this year. 🙂 Here's to lots more Sharons in lots more bookshops!
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Happy
#StPatricksDay
one and all! Beannachtaí na Féile Padraig oraibh!
In celebration, we'd like to give this hamper of Irish books worth €250 away to one person (anywhere in the world) this weekend. Like, RT, comment or follow us by 9am Monday to enter. Enjoy the weekend!😊🍀📚
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We always love when this time of year comes around! Our traditional Christmas book tree is now up!🎄📚🌟
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Happy World Book Day one and all! Lá Domhanda na Leabhar shona dhaoibh go léir!
In celebration, we would like to give this bundle of books worth over €200 away to one person. Like, RT, comment or follow us by 9am on Monday to enter. And enjoy your
#WorldBookDay
!📚
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Presenting our 2022 book Christmas tree! 📚🎄🎁⭐️
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Dear Irish consumer, remember the effort made to shop with Irish and local businesses during the Covid lockdowns, for fear they might be at risk of closing?
The Dublin centre is Amazon's first such facility in Ireland and the company says it provides faster delivery for customers across the country, including one-day delivery on hundreds of thousands of items
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Bookshops can reopen on May 17th!
Bookshops can reopen on May 17th!
Bookshops can reopen on May 17th!
🎉🎉📚📚
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Good morning all! Here is a little reminder that we have:
📖Thousands of books cheaper than Amazon
📖Free delivery in Ireland
📖We ship overseas
📖New & secondhand books
📖All the latest bestsellers
📖Books start at less than €5
📖An independent bookshop
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"My colleagues always kid me about quoting Irish poets all the time. They think I do it because I’m Irish. I do it because they’re the best poets." - Joe Biden
Congratulations to President-Elect,
@JoeBiden
#bidenharris2020
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Hello everyone! Inspired by this windy, rainy day which is perfect for reading a book, we've put together this lovely bundle of seven Signed, First Editions, now waiting to be won! Retweet, like or comment by 6pm on Saturday & you might just win these books!
#win
#booktwitter
📚
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Hands up who is looking forward to visiting a bookshop again! 🖐️
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Did you know that is actually cheaper than Amazon for thousands of books?
If you shop direct, you don't incur any additional charges like on Amazon, plus you get free delivery worldwide on all books. Win win!
Ordered three books online from
@KennysBookshop
which came to a total of €43.71. Out of curiosity i checked amazon to compare and the same three were €56. If you get a reputation as an early riser you can get up whatever time you want 🤣
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We found a signed Roald Dahl here today - a First Edition copy of Matilda!
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Happy
#StPatricksDay
one and all! Beannachtaí na Féile Padraig oraibh! In celebration, we'd like to give this hamper of Irish books worth €300 away to one person (anywhere in the world). Like, RT, comment or follow us by 9am Wednesday to enter. Enjoy the weekend! 🍀📚
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With the news that Book Depository is to close, here's a reminder that is an alternative for buying books online.
✓Free shipping in Ireland
✓We ship worldwide from €1 per book
✓Bestsellers,new & secondhand books
✓Great discounts
✓Independent bookshop
Book Depository, the UK-based online bookseller owned by Amazon, is closing down.
Read here:
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The Kennys Bookshop Christmas Book Tree of 2023!
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Here is a fun fact. After launching in 1994, our website is the longest running online bookshop in the world.
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To those who may be looking for more cost efficient options for buying books online since Brexit, a note that has:
📦Delivery of €1 per book to Europe outside of Ireland
🚚Free delivery in Ireland
📚New & used books
💰No hidden charges
🌎We ship worldwide
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A magical find here today in a file - a letter signed by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1960. ✍️💫
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Today is our 80th Birthday! It's 80 years to the day since Maureen & Des Kenny opened the bookshop in Galway, on November 29th, 1940. We remember them especially today. Thanks to all who have supported us & who are part of the history. Here are a few memories from over the years.
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A question readers.. When you read a particular author's book for the first time and you enjoy it, do you then go and find and read their other books? 📖
#bookchat
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Can we all just take a moment to digest the headline in today's summary report from Nielsen BookScan on the Irish Consumer Market 2022:
"More money was spent on books in Ireland in 2022 than ever before."
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Tá Gaillimh ag fáil réidh le Lá Fhéile Padraig. 💚☘️
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Hello Twitter! A note to say, if you're shopping for books online, here's a few reasons to choose :
Free delivery worldwide
Over a million new & secondhand books
Thousands at <€4.99
Great value
An alternative to Amazon
Supporting an independent bookshop :)
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It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear colleague, Anne Brennan very sadly died on Saturday afternoon. She passed away very peacefully at her home in Galway, surrounded by her family.
Anne started in Kennys in September 2002, and worked in the accounts /1
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Kennys has won the Irish Bookshop of the Year! We're so thrilled! A huge thanks to everyone for the support - our customers, authors, publishers, suppliers, An Post & especially our staff. Tá muid thar a bheith buíoch as ucht an onóir seo a fháil, & in its inaugural year. Hurray!
Our next award is a NEW award sponsored by
@Postvox
Bookshops are so important in helping locals find their reading gems 📚❤️
The
@Postvox
Irish OVERALL Bookshop of The Year winner is…
@KennysBookshop
in
#Connacht
✨🏆
#APIBA
#ReadersWanted
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A little Friday fun fact... After launching in 1994, our website is the oldest online bookshop in the world.
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We are thinking of everyone at
@chaptersbooks
today, as they close their doors in Dublin this evening after 40 years of selling books from their wonderful bookshop. From everyone at Kennys, we wish you all the very best.
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AMAZING discovery here at Kennys. We sometimes uncover gems, but today we found actual treasure ...solid gold coins, hidden in the spine of an old prayerbook!
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We love this... A really nice customer rang us last week to order these 60 books for his wife for her 60th birthday, which is today! 🎂🎁 Breithlá shona dí.. What a brilliant idea! 📚📚
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Twitter are now not cropping photos anymore = more books visible on your news feed! 🎉
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New Penguin Clothbound Classics just in and shelved.
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Hello Twitter, a little reminder that if you are buying books online, here is some of what you can find on :
📦Free delivery in Ireland
🌍Cheap international shipping rates
📚New & secondhand books
💰Huge discounts
🪙Thousands of books cheaper than Amazon
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We have a selection of free дитячі книжки children's books in Ukrainian available in the bookshop that we'd love to get into people's hands.🇺🇦 Ukrainian children & families are very welcome to the bookshop to pick from this selection.RTs or spreading of the word much appreciated!
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A lovely call from a Maureen in Galway just now. She is not a user of online shopping and was so excited to find that she could order some new books for delivery by phone! She said it made her day, and as she was so excited and happy, we must say it has made ours too! ☺️☺️
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Update on our services - we are now resuming shipping, and processing of book orders! 📚📖📙
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The morning after the Booker Prize longlist is announced!
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Our dear sister, aunty and one of the greatest lights in all of our lives, Jane Hogan (née Kenny) very sadly died in Galway yesterday. She was 77 years old and was surrounded by her family and extended family when she died.
Jane was the daughter of Des and Maureen Kenny, the /1
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We are all heartbroken. Sinéad O'Connor was an icon and one of the great voices of Ireland, both through her music and her unending strength and will to speak out. We are thinking of Joseph, Éimear and all of Sinéad's family this evening.
Solas na bhFlaitheas dá h-anam uasal.
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A very special visitor to Kennys today! President Michael D. Higgins very kindly called into the shop this afternoon to sign copies of his book, Reclaiming The European Street. Go raibh míle maith agat a Uachtaráin
@PresidentIRL
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Shout out to all those who are making an effort to shop local and shop Irish at the moment. We are hearing the sentiment from customers nearly on a daily basis, people are really making an effort to shop Irish. And it's great!
#shoplocal
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On this day 82 years ago, November 29th 1940, Kennys Bookshop was opened on High Street in Galway by Des and Maureen Kenny - our parents, grandparents, founders and two of the greatest advocates of the importance of books and reading. We have been thinking of them a lot today.
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2023 was a record year for print book sales in Ireland! 👏 Wonderful news issued in Nielsen's 2023 Irish market report today. This marks the tenth year in a row of value growth for the Irish book market. Wonderful!
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We are very excited to re-open the bookshop doors tomorrow, after nearly 3 months! We wish all the bookshops, libraries and other businesses around the country who are also re-opening, the very best of luck!
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This has to be one of the most remarkable finds we have come across at Kennys. Found in a publisher's file today, a letter typed and signed by Winston Churchill on February 19th, 1947 - "No one comprehends the world."
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This is your friendly reminder that there is NO delivery charge for Ireland on . The price you see for a book is the price you pay to get it into a letterbox in Ireland!
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As Book Depository take their last orders today, we are here with an alternative online bookshop if you need!🙋
offers:
-New & secondhand books
-Free delivery in Ireland
-International shipping from €1 per book🌍
& thousands of books cheaper than Amazon
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A lady just called us to order books for Christmas. They are her present to herself. 😊🎁
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Social media platforms can go down, but there are always books.
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The great Irish writer Brendan Behan was born 100 years ago today. On the centenary of his birth, Tom Kenny remembers him.
"Brendan Behan was a regular visitor to Galway. He did not drive, so he always came by bus or by train. The trouble was that between the station and our /1
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Five cages of book orders just collected by An Post!
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One of our suppliers always sends their books to us packed like this in a sliced pan wrapper. How great is this!
#onlyinireland
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Sun is shining, lots of book parcels ready to go! 🌞
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Kicking off what is a very special year for us, as in 2020 we are celebrating 80 years in business. In 1940, Des & Maureen Kenny opened the bookshop in Galway and it has been quite a journey to where we are today. Our thanks to all who have been part of it, here's to many more!
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Some books to brighten up your timeline this Sunday morning
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We're delighted to share that our bookshop will re-open on Monday June 8th! We'll be open 10:30-4pm Monday to Friday, with 10:30-11:30 for the elderly & vulnerable & with access to a set number of people, maintaining social distancing. We are very excited to welcome people back!
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"More money was spent on books in Ireland last year than ever before."
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Back in May, archivist Sarah Gallagher found two gold coins down the side of an old prayerbook here in Kennys. Today, we donated the proceeds of the sale of these to two wonderful charities -
@galwaysimon
&
@irishredcross
, who received €2,300 each. A lovely end to a great story!
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HELP NEEDED! A very elderly friend of ours is looking for a poem for his own gravestone - the only line he remembers is ‘…The drip drip of leaves’ - if anyone has any information or could help we would be so grateful. Hoping for a Christmas miracle!
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Thomas Kinsella, giant of Irish letters, died today. We will miss him. "I thought beloved Ferdia would live forever after me - yesterday, a mountain-side; today, nothing but a shade." Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal (pictured at Kennys Bookshop, 1970s)
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After 3 weeks of moving, dismantling, building, dusting and re-shelving, we're delighted to have a whole new layout to Kennys Bookshop! There are new bookshelves throughout the shop & a brand new oak front counter has also been fitted. We hope you'll all like it as much as we do!
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People are really missing visiting bookshops at the moment, so here is a little walk around part of ours today - to give you something of a browse in a bookshop for now! 😊📚
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Well we think this looks just lovely! 💚 What a great night it has been, we are so happy to have won this award and we can't thank everyone enough for the support. We also want to wish a huge congratulations to all those who won & were shortlisted for the various awards tonight.
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7 cages of book parcels sent out today with An Post. Thank you to everyone who has ordered with us! 🎄📚📦
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Tis the season to Shop Local & Shop Irish. So here's a bit of what we offer..
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Today we visited the wonderful
@brattlebookshop
in Boston. While browsing the rare book floor, we happened to find a rare copy of John McGahern's The Leavetaking, which had an old Kennys business card inside.. from the 1980s!
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The prime places to buy books? Bookshops.
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If you are staycationing in Galway this Summer, we would love to welcome you to the bookshop. We are 15 minutes walk or 5 minutes drive from Eyre Square. Books old and new, art agus céad míle fáilte!
#Staycation
#Galway
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New photographs of Granny and Grandad put up in the wall just inside the front door, for the weekend that's in it. This day eighty years ago they were getting ready to open up their new bookshop.
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Yes it's Bob Dylan's birthday today, but it's also Tomás Kenny's birthday too!😊 Happy Birthday from us all Tomás! 🥳
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The excitement of picking up, opening up and starting a new book is truly one of the great pleasures in life.
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If you're visiting Galway this Summer, we'd love to give you a céad míle fáilte at Kennys. We are just 5 minutes drive or 20 minutes walk from the city centre. There is plenty of parking space outside and all this and more inside! Hope to see you soon!
#Galway
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On this day in 1922, James Joyce's 'Ulysses' was first published in its entirety in Paris. It is also Joyce's birthday.
#OnThisDay
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We just got a call from someone who got an unexpected book in the post from Kennys today... someone had ordered it for them online as a surprise! They are always lovely phone calls to get as people are always so excited with unexpected book post. 🙂
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The things you find in books! Cormac just came across this inside a P.G. Wodehouse book..
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Penguin Clothbound Classics section just reorganised 😍
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Many people assume Amazon is always the cheapest option. It's not.
Once again
@KennysBookshop
is a winner for buying books online. This time half the price of Amazon. 👏
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We just had a family call into the bookshop who are on holidays in Ireland from Croatia. They order books online from us regularly, and made a trip to Galway especially to visit the shop. It's made our day! 🥰
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We are quite overwhelmed with all the messages of congratulations we have received on winning the bookshop award last night! We want to say a huge thank you to each & every one of you for your messages & support. We really appreciate them all! Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir.
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Bestsellers, bestsellers everywhere! Look at all these fabulous new books! 😍📚📖All on now & available to order while stocks last! >>
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We are all so happy for Tom Kenny who is to be awarded the University of Galway Alumni Award 2022 for Arts, Literature and Celtic Studies. The annual Alumni Awards recognise individual excellence and achievements among the University’s 120,000 graduates worldwide. The awardees /1
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A lovely email in just now from a customer, Ray in Waterford: "Kennys are the ONLY shop/business that have posted something to me that is NOT in plastic. I'm almost crying with joy and disbelief. It does matter and it does make a difference. Well done."
Thanks Ray! 🌏📗📦🌳
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How do you like our new coffee mug? 🙂
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On a very happy note today, it is Tom's birthday and we all wish him a very, very Happy Birthday! Lá breithe sona agus speisialta Tom :)
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We were all so thrilled to see the well deserved Oscar nomination for An Cailín Ciúin yesterday. The film is a beautiful adaptation of this stunning book by Claire Keegan. Congrats to all. If you enjoyed the movie,you will love this book.
#BookRecommendation
#OscarNominations2023
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Stunning sky over Galway this evening.
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Evening postage collection at Liosbán! 📚📦
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