Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and publishers, and especially to Kennys bookseller Gráinne on her YA novel, Solo. www.kennys.ie/shop/kennys-...

Happy to have received my book order all the way from from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social , in beautiful Éire 🇮🇪! And a good ten days ahead of the expected delivery date! Lá éigin, tá súil agam go mbeidh mé ag spaisteoireacht faoin tuath in Éirinn.

What a great night at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Friday. It was fun getting to share #BarnGothic with both friends and strangers. With such a robust crowd, it was probably my best chance to try crowd surfing. I didn't, though, and I regret it.

Book friends! Sale of brilliant fiction at less than €9 each: www.kennys.ie/shop/novels-...

Ted Turton, the painter who co-founded the Galway Arts Festival, wrote a lovely memoir about his adventures with the legendary Footsbarn Travelling Theatre. I had the pleasure of copy-editing it, and it's on sale at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social: www.kennys.ie/shop/my-trav... [1/2] tedturtonart.com

Maggie O'Farrell, the bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, is coming to Galway in June as part of her new book tour! It celebrates her new book Land, an historical novel set in the west of Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. Book here: tht.ie/4704/maggie-...

We're so excited to announce our upcoming event on April 27th with bestselling author Katriona O’Sullivan, which celebrates her second book, 'Hungry', launching that week. She'll join Elaine Feeney in conversation about it and tickets are on sale now! tht.ie/4697/katrion...

Books coming in 2026! This already promises to be a great one, with new books coming by Doireann ní Ghríofa, Colm Tóibín, Maggie O'Farrell, Edel Coffey, Louise Nealon, Robert Harris, Anna Carey, Louise Kennedy, Louise O'Neill and Sebastian Barry, amongst many others. www.kennys.ie/shop/upcomin...

📗Glass, by Gráinne O'Brien will be published by Little Island in 2027📗 @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/little-islan...

Nollaig na mBan Shona daoibh go léir, Happy Women's Christmas - a great day to celebrate and recognise all Irish women writers and their contributions. We are so lucky to have them all!

Kennys Exclusive Signed Limited Editions published in 2025 🌟

From all the staff here at Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery, we wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas and all the best for 2026. Nollaig Shona agus athbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh go léir, to everyone near and far. 💫

Thank you to all the local retailers and businesses who work so hard at this time of year! 🙏

Opening hours for the holidays.🎄

Huge congratulations to Joseph O'Connor who has been awarded the Irish Book of the Year 2025 this evening,for his remarkable The Ghosts of Rome. The novel is a beautifully written thriller set in Nazi occupied Rome in 1944. Great news, comhghairdeas Joseph!👏 www.kennys.ie/shop/kennys-...

Date for your January diaries! Author Ryan Dennis will interviewed at Kennys on Friday, January 23rd about his new memoir, 'Barn Gothic: Three Generations and the Death of the Family Farm.' Tickets available to book now: www.kennys.ie/events/books.... Signed copies here: shorturl.at/4yZGM

The Irish Book of the Year 2025 will be announced this Thursday, December 11th on RTÉ1 at 10.15pm. We want to congratulate our colleague - bestselling and now award-winning author - Gráinne O'Brien, on being nominated as one of the top six Irish Books of 2025! 🥳

Wishing all at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social warm wishes celebrating 85 years at the heart of Galway books, art, and more. This archives Kenny's brochure even included a map of the original shop on High Street!

Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway city is celebrating 85 years as a family business this weekend.

85 years ago today, on November 29th 1940, Maureen and Des Kenny opened Kennys Bookshop in Galway. Thank you to every person who has been a part of the story these past 85 years. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.

Huge congratulations to our colleague and brilliant author Gráinne O'Brien, who has just won the Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year 2025 at the Irish Book Awards for her novel, Solo. We are so proud to see her hard work and wonderful writing awarded tonight. Comhghairdeas - well done Gráinne.🏆

Got my Christmas book order in to @kennysbookshop.bsky.social in time for #BlackFriday - they have some amazing exclusive offers and signed books that will make lovely gifts, and there's also a lot of great stuff discounted at the moment (that I bought as presents for myself ...). #ShopLocal

We are delighted to announce our Exclusive Signed Limited Edition of Doireann ní Ghríofa's new novel, Said the Dead. Our Edition will be signed by the author, have an exclusive design and feature an exclusive poem by Doireann, not in any other edition. Out May 2026. www.kennys.ie/shop/said-th...

Not just at Christmas. The best choice and value for books all year round.

Stocked up with all your Christmas book buying needs, so supportive of Irish authors. Super fast, free delivery

Many thanks to Conor Pope for featuring us in this list of 100 Irish websites to shop with this Christmas. He has all avenues covered with Irish retailers listed for clothes, toys, food and drink, beauty, jewellery and more in this brilliant guide. www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...

made a bunch of my christmas orders from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social – the *first* online bookshop, so the legend goes they've a huge selection, loads of good deals, and free shipping in ireland (and not too expensive to mainland europe) great idea if you're lazy but don't want to support amazon

Our Christmas tree is up at Kennys Bookshop! 📚🎄💫

Lovely delivery from my good friends at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social arrived today that'll keep me entertained for the first couple of weeks of the dark Swedish winter - until the Christmas order comes ... :)

It's publication day! #BarnGothic has been released into the wild. You know that you can never get someone else's story perfectly right, but I hope it's close enough that my family, my community, and family farmers everywhere can see themselves in it. bit.ly/4pd1JRM

We need your votes! We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social! Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

A brand new collection of short stories by Colm Tóibín 'The News From Dublin', has just been announced for publication in March. We're thrilled to announce our Kennys Exclusive Signed Limited Edition of the book, available for pre-order now: www.kennys.ie/shop/the-new...

We need your votes! We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social! Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

Thank you @whatsfsaid.bsky.social for this!! There are many way to pre order my debut and one of the best is through @kennysbookshop.bsky.social with worldwide shipping and great service! Check it out here! www.kennys.ie/shop/a-milli...

Public voting is now open for the 2025 Irish Book Awards and you can vote for your favourite book in any or all categories! We are very proud to see Kennys' bookseller Gráinne O'Brien shortlisted for YA Book of the Year with her terrific novel, Solo. Vote here! www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

Dean Kelly talks to Judy Murphy of Galway's City Tribune, ahead of his new exhibition opening this Friday. @deankelly.bsky.social connachttribune.ie/capturing-ch...

I’m in Australia, but looking for an Amazon alternative I haven’t found better than the Irish bookstore @kennysbookshop.bsky.social - I often get discounts that effectively cover shipping, delivery times are good, and they ain’t Jeff. :-)

'Tent at Gaza' by John Behan RHA Bronze, Unique, 8x18x12in €6,250 Part of new works by John Behan, currently running in the gallery: shorturl.at/8dqjI

@kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookmail is always the best bookmail. Finally got a new copy of Hill House and I am SO excited for my yearly reread!

First up, Kenny’s Bookshop @kennysbookshop.bsky.social in Galway. They are offering limited-edition hand-signed prints to the first 400 customers who place an order. More than half are already sold, so order quick! www.kennys.ie/shop/oscar-w...

Exhibition opening at Kennys on October 24th at 6pm - join us to celebrate @deankelly.bsky.social's new collection of over 40 paintings, photographs and drawings of Galway scenes, with special guest Phill Jupitus. All welcome! All artwork details including prices will be online later this week.

We're sorry to see this happened to our friends at the lovely @booksupstairs.bsky.social last night. Thankfully everyone is okay!

📍Barna Woods, Galway. Trees damaged during Storm Éowyn transformed into these beautiful pieces.

Ní bheidh a leitheid arís ann is an overused phrase, but it could not be more apt than with Manchán Magan. He would tell you a story about the origin of the phrase, and why it's used more in certain parts of the country than others. He crammed so much into his 55 years, /1

The new book by the bestselling author of 'Poor', Katriona O'Sullivan has just been announced for publication next April! 'Hungry' is a memoir about her relationship with her body, self-acceptance, and an ongoing effort to find an identity and feel enough. www.kennys.ie/shop/hungry-...

The brand new novel by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - authors of the bestselling Aisling series - has just been announced, and we're so delighted to launch our Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition! It's limited to 750 copies - we love it and hope you will too! www.kennys.ie/shop/our-dea...

Join us at Kennys tomorrow (Saturday 20th) for an event to launch this stunning new exhibition of over 50 sculptures and drawings by John Behan, 'A Terrible Beauty'. The event is at 2.30pm - all welcome! You can also view the full exhibition online. shorturl.at/oCTVz

I haven’t been able to read properly for months. Poor attention span! But I’ve missed it. This beautiful book though - read with the sound of the sea crashing onto the County Clare coast is reeling me back in! First Hugo Hamilton for me & it’s gorgeous. Thanks Hugo and @kennysbookshop.bsky.social

Delivery to Sweden from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social. Great to support Irish businesses (and learn about what Ireland can do in the climate crisis) even when living abroad. Looking forward to reading @thinkorswim.bsky.social.

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