Kennys Bookshop

Kennys Bookshop is an independent bookshop in Galway, Ireland and online at www.kennys.ie. The website stocks over 5 million books and offers free delivery worldwide!

We stock pre-release, new, secondhand, out of print and rare books and with a renowned stock of books on Irish history, culture, literature and language, as well as a comprehensive selection of non-Irish material that covers all aspects of the human experience, there is a book for everyone at Kennys.

Kennys Bookshop was established in High St, Galway in 1940 by Des & Maureen Kenny. Five of their six children and three of their grandchildren now work in the family business.

Web folklore has it that Kennys Bookshop was the second bookshop in the world to have its own website. Only a sci-fi shop in San Francisco beat us to it and they closed many years ago. As pioneers of bookselling online, we have continually redeveloped the site over the years to keep up-to-date on the changing trends and needs of our customers.