[4] Literary figures often met at J.J. Reddin's house and Kenneth was associated with the Irish Theatre Company in Hardwicke Street, where his brothers Kerry and Norman acted.
[10] He visited James Joyce in Paris several times, first with a gift of Olhausen's black pudding, later at a PEN congress.
[13][14] Reddin supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and his father's house in Artane was burned in the Irish Civil War.
[18] As well as writing plays and novels, he collected humorous anecdotes from his judicial work intended for a book to be called Laughter in My Court.
[19] In 1941 he objected to an article in PEN's magazine which he said was "propaganda, attacking the neutrality of Eire, and that all we wanted was to be left alone".