This started a trend and the bookshop now supplies some three hundred libraries throughout North America. Among the artists introduced to Galway via exhibitions in the eighties were Gertrude Degenhardt, John Coll, Peter Fitzgerald, Joseph Quilty, Susan Webb and Mick Flaherty. Members of the Kenny Family L-R Monica Rigney, Tom Kenny, Karen Golden, Conor Kenny, Maureen Kenny, Jane Hogan, Gerry Kenny and Des Kenny. Kennys first computer, an Atari 286, was purchased in 1990. Their Home Page on the World Wide Web was launched in 1994, only the second bookshop in the world to do so.
Customers now have the option of being sent their weekly or monthly mailing lists by e-mail.
There are now approximately 40,000 books on Kennys on-line catalogues and orders arrive daily from all over the world. The Web site is also used to promote the art exhibitions held regularly in Kennys. Another export opportunity identified by Kennys was Japan, a country visited for the first time in 1995. In 1995, she began a framing service as well as the wholesale supply service of antiquarian maps and prints. 1990 - Kennys celebrated 50 years in business with a major exhibition of portraits of 101 Irish writers by contemporary artists entitled 'Faces in a Bookshop'.