Enda Kenny

About Enda Kenny

Enda Kenny is an Irish-born Australian folk-singer and songwriter.

Occupation: songwriter
Citizenship: Australia

Overview

Enda Kenny is an Irish-born Australian folk-singer and songwriter. Kenny was born in Dublin, and migrated to Melbourne in 1987. He released his debut album, Twelve Songs, in 1994. Though self-recorded and self-released, the album received generally solid reviews, and was described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "the best folk album to be released in this country since Eric Bogle's "Scraps of Paper". It was followed by Baker's Dozen in 1996, which received similarly positive reviews. A song from that album, Rabin, about assassinated former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, won the Lawson Paterson Award for Songwriting at the Port Fairy Folk Festival. This was followed with a third album, Six of One in 1998, which featured a number of covers, and was less well reviewed. Kenny's song The Language of the Land from Twelve Songs was covered by English folk singer Roy Bailey in the same year. After a brief hiatus, Kenny released his fourth album, Cloud Lining, in 2001, again receiving positive reviews. He released his most recent album, Here and There in 2005. In his review of Here and There, Sydney Morning Herald music reviewer Bruce Elder described Kenny as "the best folk singer-songwriter working in Australia."

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Notable quotes

“The incoming government is not going to leave our people in the dark. likes to know what the story is.”
— During an interview with on on 26 February 2011.
“Generally when people speak to each other they use words.”
— At a public event in July 2012. Irish Independent
“So I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don't mean Castlebar Mitchels, I mean the whingers that I hear every week.”
— Expressing his thoughts on his own constituents at a campaign rally in Castlebar.
“Bejaysus, I wish I didn't have to go back and face what I have to face.”
— While at the Irish Embassy in Washington shortly after the 2016 general election. Irish Independent
“Is [assassination] only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?”
— Joe Higgins questions Kenny on support from the Taoiseach, Tanaiste and presidents of the European Commission and European Council for use of assassination.
“The outstanding organiser who brought Lenin himself to Ireland to see how the National Loan worked.”
— Referring to Michael Collins at Béal na mBláth in 2012. He later admitted he had got it badly wrong after historians expressed bewilderment at Kenny's claim that Lenin had visited Ireland. As quoted in Irish Independent

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