Celebrating the 500th Episode of Ireland Made – Stories of Irish Transport | Season 5 – Episode 100
Floats, Wheels, Wings Dec 15, 2025
I am delighted to share with you that we have reached a major milestone on Ireland Made – stories of Irish transport, we have just passed our 500th episode! I am delighted and I never thought when. We started off in 2018 that we would be able to produce two video-stories every week and go on to produce 500 episodes. You name it and we have covered it – if it is in the air, land sea, we have covered all the stories.
HOW IT BEGAN
Following a lifetime passion for all things mechanical, in 2018 I decided to showcase interesting projects being built by neighbours and friends in Co Leitrim, launching a small picture-based website called Leitrim Made. Early stories included a Kioti tracked tractor, an MZ motorcycle with trailer, the respray of our Land Rover Series 3 and a 1936 Wolseley “Wacky Racer”.
During lockdown in 2020 the project expanded to cover the entire island and was relaunched as Ireland Made, adopting the Irish Elk as its logo, depicted in St Patrick’s Blue. In 2021 the platform evolved again with a new website and a growing library of video-blogs. Today, twice weekly, we share stories of Irish transport past and present.
MY THANKS
I have a lot of people I want to thank.
Martina my lovely wife for all of her support and for the great voice overs.
Tom Burns from Worldreach PR for helping me move into video-based reporting and for his mentoring support.
Mike Keane from Hibra Design, my thanks for all of the work we did together on the ‘Talking the Talk’ podcast.
Philip Darling, location scout extraordinaire and collaborator on many Ireland Made stories.
John Furlong who has also collaborated with me on a number of stories and who is joining me along with Philip on our new venture VintageArt.ie – check it out.
The team at Grafton Digital for all their work on the website.
Very special thanks to Dennison Trailers who sponsor our website and who see what we are trying to do on Ireland Made – stories of Irish transport. Special thanks to them.
My thanks to our eight contributors, Tom Burns, Michael Traynor, Brian Manning, Brian Phelan, Dr Mark Humphrys, Michael English-Colohan, Freda Reid & Colm Hughes.
To our monthly subscribers, you are the people who keep us on the road. Your subscriptions allow us to travel across Ireland, collecting and preserving our stories. Our thanks to you all.
To our ever-growing followers on social media, keep up those likes and comments and tell your friends about Ireland Made – stories of Irish transport.
And as a political party once said; a lot done – a lot more to do. Keep watching Ireland Made – stories of Irish transport.
Over Christmas, we’ll share three unique Irish transport stories from our contributors:
1. Fay Taylour – ‘The World’s Wonder Girl’ by Brian Manning
2. The Thomond – Dublin’s forgotten motor car by Dr Mark Humphrys
3. Michael English and the Rise of Tractors by Michael English-Colohan
Happy Christmas from all the team at Ireland Made – stories of Irish transport.
Many thanks and kind regards
Kevin Reid
