Kevin O'Leary grew up in County Wexford and worked in England, Canada and the USA before returning to set up a garage business in Taghmon where he and his wife Gretta reared their five children.
The Red Fella' is the story of the early part of his life from childhood to marriage and his subsequent emigration.
The story is an entertaining, witty and insightful account of life in rural Wexford as his parents and family struggled through the hardships of the 1930s, 1940s and into the 1950s.