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Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and his wife Helen visit Kennys Bookshop
This week saw the visit to Kenny's of Máirtín Ó Muilleoir MLA, a Sinn Féin politician, author, publisher and businessman, who served as the 58th Lord Mayor of Belfast. An avid blogger Máirtín went away and very kindly waxed lyrical about his experience here in a piece he entitled "Kenny’s Bookstore in Galway go toe to toe with Amazon". #GRMA a Mháirtín - thank you for the kind words, it was lovely to see yourself and Helen in Galway.

A short excerpt of Máirtín's piece on Kenny's (read more on Irish Central):

Galway city: On a jaunt up to Galway this week, I got an access-all-areas invite to one of Ireland’s most revered national treasures: Kenny’s Bookstore.

But during the crash and with e-books becoming the fashion, the venerable family institution upped sticks and moved to a warehouse in the Liosbán Business Park on the outskirts of Galway.

Courtesy of Conor Kenny, one of a team of Kennys still at the helm, I was invited to pop into their bookshop and store to see for myself some of the one million books making up their voluminous stock...

Read more on Irish Central >>>

Helen & Máirtín Ó Muilleoir at Kennys Bookshop, Galway

 

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