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Galway
Advertiser,
28th February,
1991
A Unique Contribution to Galway Life
CHAMBER'S TRIBUTE TO KENNY EMILY
In November of this year the Galway Chamber of Commerce and Industry will begin celebrations to mark its 200th anniversary of service to the city.
To underline the Chamber's contribution to the commercial life of the city, a special tribute was paid last weekend to a unique Galway business, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Des and Maureen Kenny, dos. of Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery, were the guests of honour at the Chamber of Commerce annual dinner on Friday last. The Mayor of Galway Michael D. Higgins T.D. said the Kennys of Galway expressed best the city's capacity to be open to all that was new in books and paintings. "They developed a unique linkage from books into art where the main stream of writing and painting was displayed. It was a brave conception, a dream, when the book world was contracting in London it was expanding in Gal way!' FACES IN A BOOKSHOP Chamber President Mr. Jim Sweeney felt that the Kenny contribution to both the commercial and the artistic life of the city was best summarised in their exhibition last November "Faces In A Bookshop!' That exhibition was opened by President Dr. Patrick Hillery. The exhibition consisted of portraits of more than 100 writers and by some 75 artists. Gerry, Monica and Conor: he said. The President further quoted from the catalogue to the exhibition the poet Gerald Dawe's impression of the hospitality and encouragement he received shortly after arriving in Galway from Belfast in the 1970's. Gerald Dawe wrote:
"The Poet sat at the top of the table. Salthill was very wet and a squally wind shuddered the plate glass window and doors of the Gallery. We could have been in a transparent ship docked for shelter. Late autumn was settling into winter with a vengeance. The group of us stuck it out. Paintings on the wall made the light inside disarm the dirty night without. The poet whistled occasionally through his elaborate poems. It sounded quite strange and then the other Poet stood up and read his. 'This stuff will make the hair on your head stand up! It made all the difference." "Afterwards, drinks were passed all round well after the last bus had headed back into town. We were shining. So this is just a brief and overdue word of thanks.''
TONY AND MULRYAN
MARY
WALSH, Ardilaun
Ballybrit, House
pictured
with
CONNIE annual
AND dinner
SEAN in the
of Seacrest
at the Chamber
of Commerce
Hotel on Friday.
President Sweeney said that the attendance at the opening was as a comprehensive representa tion by the arts in Ireland as might be possible at any one point in time. "It represented Des and Maureen's achievements over fifty years, which they celebrated on that occasion with their six children, Thomas, Jane, Dessie,
VALENTINE WINNER
The winner of The Melting Pot's Valentine Draw is Lynn Hill, Anglers Return, Roundstone, Clifden.
A handpainted mantle clock can be collected from the shop in Market Street.
RUBBER STAMPS PERMA STAMPS SaF INKERS COMPANY SEALS ETC.
COLEMAN Commerce
AND MARIE COLLINS of Bushy Park, pictured at the Chamber of annual dinner in the Ardilaun House Hotel with MARY AND JOHN GIBBS of Salthill.
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