Henry Ford is remembered as the man who revolutionized the world with the Model T and the assembly line. But long before Detroit crowned him an industrial giant, his family were tenant farmers in County Cork, driven from their land by famine and empire.
In 1912, Ford returned to Ireland with his wife and son, walking the same streets his father had once left behind. Five years later, he made a decision that stunned the world: to build his first factory outside America not in London or Paris, but in Cork.
This is the forgotten story of how Henry Ford empowered Ireland — through jobs, industry, and quiet acts of rebellion against Britain — and why he never forgot his roots.
00:00 Prologue – The Forgotten Story
00:54 Roots and Exile: From Ballinascarthy to America
02:25 Rebellion Rising: Ireland on the Edge
03:50 Building in Cork: Ford’s Gamble and Gift
05:40 Quiet Rebellion and Giving: Factories, Hospitals, Hope
07:17 Paradoxes of a Mogul: The Irony of Henry Ford
08:45 The Line Continues: Edsel and the Family Legacy
09:51 Memory and Meaning: How Ireland Remembers Ford
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Credit to : Valor & Vice