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Each season, we create and post 100 new Irish transport videos, with two videos and accompanying articles added to our collection every week.

In Season 3 we brought you stories with a connection to Irish transport not just from Ireland, also from America, Portugal, Russia and the UK.  We covered a wide range of transport including Bicycles, Cars, Concrete barges, Electric cars, Ferries, Jeeps, Motorbikes, Planes, Racing, Railways, Ships, Tanks, Threshers, Trams, Tractors, Trolleybuses, Vans and even cable cars.

Our full list of Season 3 stories, all available to view on www.irelandmade.ie

  • Birth of the Dublin Tram café via US, Portugal & Cavan | Season 3 – Episode 1
  • MG TF – stylish sports car assembled in ‘50s Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 2
  • Land Rover Series 3 working hard on the bog | Season 3 – Episode 3
  • 70 years of Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board heavy haulage fleet | Season 3 – Episode 4
  • Reg Armstrong motorbike rider, importer & assembler | Season 3 – Episode 5
  • DKW Auto Union car assembled in Cork in the ’50s | Season 3 – Episode 6
  • Unusual barn find at Kilgarvan Motor Museum | Season 3 – Episode 7
  • Star of the Show – 1944 Willys-Overland MB Jeep | Season 3 – Episode 8
  • A fine ’60s Fiat 1100 & the Company’s 100 years in Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 9
  • Prototype 4-Seater Prestige Convertible – 1978 Cavalier Centaur | Season 3 – Episode 10
  • Getting the job done – 1979 Land Rover Series III | Season 3 – Episode 11
  • Wicklow’s hidden gem – Coolakay | Season 3 – Episode 12
  • Strangford Ferry since 1180 – first female captain | Season 3 – Episode 13
  • Rarer than a snake in Ireland – the Shamrock car | Season 3 – Episode 14
  • Opel Rekord E1 Berlina 2.0S | Season 3 – Episode 15
  • Lilian Bland – 1910 worlds first woman to design build and fly a plane | Season 3 – Episode 16
  • 1900s Warrenpoint built Cretefleet – where are they now? | Season 3 – Episode 17
  • The Four Cable Cars of Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 18
  • Opel Monza GSE 1985 executive fastback & rally favourite | Season 3 – Episode 19
  • Great Northern Railway Ireland Gardner Buses 1937 – 1952 | Season 3 – Episode 20
  • Queens beat Yamaha – Professor Gordon Blair | Season 3 – Episode 21
  • Crayford Car Conversions – David McMullan | Season 3 – Episode 22
  • Irishman in New York re-commissioning 1973 E-type Jaguar | Season 3 – Episode 23
  • Running the railways on Dublin time 1847 – 1916 | Season 3 – Episode 24
  • 1968 Marshall Land Rover Ambulance | Season 3 – Episode 25
  • Belfast boasted Ireland’s only trolleybus network 1938-68 | Season 3 – Episode 26
  • Nancy Corrigan – Achill Island to American Skies | Season 3 – Episode 27
  • Stanley Woods – 10 Times TT Winner | Season 3 – Episode 28
  • Worlds first aviation accident – 1785 Tullamore Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 29
  • Gypsy Moth III – Tyrrell built 1960 trans-Atlantic winner | Season 3 – Episode 30
  • Ryanair’s €40 billion order: Ireland’s largest aircraft deal | Season 3 – Episode 31
  • Ireland’s only cable guided ferry the Mary Fitzgerald | Season 3 – Episode 32
  • Irish Naval Service acquires Inshore Patrol Vessels | Season 3 – Episode 33
  • Bill King’s Galway Blazer – Solo Circumnavigation 50th Anniversary | Season 3 – Episode 34
  • Irish design consultancy created advanced racing Kart | Season 3 – Episode 35
  • MG Magnette estate the 1967 car that never was? | Season 3 – Episode 36
  • Cork built DKW Junior Kilgarvan Motor Museum | Season 3 – Episode 37 
  • Armagh’s John Stephenson 1832 Worlds First Street Railway | Season 3 – Episode 38
  • Irish Original Registration & Assembled Cars – Kilgarvan Motor Museum | Season 3 – Episode 39
  • World’s First Armoured Personnel Carrier Daimler-Guinness ‘Boilers’ 1916 | Season 3 – Episode 40
  • Mike Keane – Ford eco-boost | Season 3 – Episode 41
  • The Genius of Rex McCardless | Season 3 – Episode 42
  • Land Rover Firefly Fire Tender 1961 | Season 3 – Episode 43
  • SS Great Britain aground 1846 Dundrum Bay Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 44
  • Morris Mini Cooper S Works 1966 replica rally car | Season 3 – Episode 45
  • Jaguar C-X75 Williams Advanced Engineering – Design Lead: Mike Keane | Season 3 – Episode 46
  • 1930s Donegal Rail Car | Season 3 – Episode 47 followers
  • James Bond Jaguar C-X75 The Irish connection | Season 3 – Episode 48
  • 120th Anniversary Charles Rolls Co Kerry Hill Climb | Season 3 – Episode 49
  • John Boyd Dunlop – inventor or pretender? | Season 3 – Episode 50
  • Railway Protection, Repair and Maintenance Corps 1922 | Season 3 – Episode 51
  • Charles Bianconi the man who brought wheels to Ireland 1815 – 1875 | Season 3 – Episode 52
  • BSA Irish Army Bicycle | Season 3 – Episode 53
  • Golf GTI RHD thanks to Robert McBurney 1976 | Season 3 – Episode 54
  • The Nifty-Fifty Honda 50 | Season 3 – Episode 55 (First published as Season 1 – Episode 71)
  • World’s only 1930s Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat | Season 3 – Episode 56 (First published as Season 1 – Episode 38)
  • Summer in Ireland 1932 RPSI steam train to Kilkenny | Season 3 – Episode 57
  • German U-boat fleet surrenders in Derry 1945 | Season 3 – Episode 58
  • Rare 1953 Belgian Patrol Boat in Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 59
  • Belfast City Trams 1872 – 1954 | Season 3 – Episode 60
  • 3,000 classic cars sold – David Golding | Season 3 – Episode 61
  • Ulster Grand Prix – the fastest road race in the world | Season 3 – Episode 62
  • Dualway Coaches moving Ireland since 1978 | Season 3 – Episode 63
  • Ford tractor barn find County Leitrim | Season 3 – Episode 64 (Originally published at Season 1 – Episode 28)
  • 4×4 ATW CHICO 1980s Donegal Made all-terrain vehicle restoration | Season 3 – Episode 65 (First Published as Season 1 – Episode 18)
  • Henkel 1956 Bubble Car Made in Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 66 (First published as Season 1 – Episode 26)
  • The Alouette III helicopter – workhorse of the Irish Air Corps over 40 years | Season 3 – Episode 67 (First published as Season 1 – Episode 30)
  • Rare and beautiful 1953 Lanchester Classic Car Glenview Folk Museum | Season 3 – Episode 68 (First published as Season 1 – Episode 40)
  • Travelling in 1960s style – Richie and Gino the Routemaster buses | Season 3 – Episode 69
  • Irish seaweed transport 1700s to today | Season 3 – Episode 70
  • Going out to work in Ireland 1947 | Season 3 – Episode 71
  • Would the stylish 1962 DAWB 6 sell today? | Series 3 – Episode 72
  • Larne Electric Post Float 1959 | Season 3 – Episode 73
  • World’s First Electric Tramway Ireland 1883 | Season 3 – Episode 74
  • Sweet Home Alabama – Driving a Routemaster | Season 3 – Episode 75
  • Harry Ferguson Mastered Tractors, but Couldn’t Tame Cars 1950 – ’80 | Season 3 – Episode 76
  • Denys Corbett Wilson – First to fly Irish Sea 1912 | Season 3 – Episode 77
  • The chequered career of the Dublin built Helga 1908 – 1947 | Season 3 – Episode 78
  • First Test Drive 530 hp BYD Seal Excellence AWD at MSL Park Motors | Season 33 – Episode 79
  • The largest ship ever built in Ireland 72,000-ton Irish Spruce 1983 | Season 3 – Episode 80
  • Rare Mid-Engine 1980s Fiat X1/9 | Season 3 – Episode 81
  • Chambers Motors Ireland’s Only Auto Maker 1904 – 1929 | Season 3 – Episode 82
  • Railway People – Bill Garrioch – Railway Protection Society of Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 83
  • 1918 USA Establishes Naval Air Stations in Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 84
  • 1960 Trac Grip unique quirky and cute | Season 3 – Episode 85
  • Holy Grail 1963 PMG Thorpe lenses found at Car Boot sale | Season 3 – Episode 86
  • Space Shuttle and the 1981 – 2011 Shannon Airport connection | Season 3 – Episode 87
  • Cycling Legend Ireland’s Sean Kelly | Season 3 – Episode 88
  • Cornstown House Vintage Farm Machinery Fingal Co Dublin | Season 3 – Episode 89
  • Airships in Ireland 740 AD to 2027 | Season 3 – Episode 90
  • Dublin Unveils Pedal-Cab Trial for Carbon-Neutral Urban Transport | Season 3 – Episode 91
  • Portmarnock Beach Ireland 1930s Aviation Epicentre | Season 3 – Episode 92
  • 1917 Thresher Tsar Nicholas II Connection | Season 3 – Episode 93
  • Tanks to Threshers | Season 3 – Episode 94
  • Railway People – Joe Darling – Railway Preservation Society of Ireland | Season 3 – Episode 95
  • Steaming by the Irish Sea September 2023 | Season 3 – Episode 96
  • Aviator Mary Bailey – First Woman to Fly Irish Sea 1927 and Africa Round-Trip 1928 | Season 3 – Episode 97
  • 1959 Moto Guzzi Lodola Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way | Season 3 – Episode 98
  • Customised Volkswagen Transporter T3 | Season 3 – Episode 99
  • Highlights of Season 3 | Season 3 – Episode 100

A huge thank you to our subscribers as their support allows us to travel across Ireland to film our stories. From just €2 per month you can support our valuable work in preserving stories of Irish transport past and present. Just click on the big red “SUBSCRIBE” button on www.irelandmade.ie

Our special thanks to your contributors over the season, including:

  • Coolakay Agricultural Heritage Museum
  • Dualway Coaches
  • Edward J Conally
  • Kilgarvan Motor Museum
  • Marian Caulfield
  • Michael Horan

Our thanks to our collaborators this season including:

  • An Garda Siochána
  • Cavan & Leitrim Railway
  • Dennison Trailers
  • Glenview Museum
  • Guinness Archives
  • Irish Defence Forces
  • National Transport Museum
  • Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
  • Ryanair

If you have an idea for an Irish transport story, please email details to Kevin Reid on [email protected]

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Kevin Reid

Founder Ireland Made