Kenna, Thomas ("the younger")

Born in ?; Kept shop in Dublin, and flourished in the 1st quarter of the 19th century; According to O’Neill he "was mysterious and secretive, "a close corporation", and would not allow anyone, idler or stroller, about his place to see him take off a single shaving [i.e. at work; ws]"; O’Neill tells us an anecdote about a young farmer with remarkable mechanical skill, named Boylan, who came into Kenna’s shop with a chanter, and asked him to fit a reed to it, hoping to gain a little knowledge by seeing him work; Kenna, who always maintained a respectable appearance, put on his hat and coat, and, leaving the shop at once, said to Boylan "Come at this hour tomorrow, sir, and your chanter will be ready"; And so it was, but Boylan was no wiser; After Kenna’s death, Maurice Coyne acquired his tools and business.