Donegal tweed manufactured for centuries it took on its modern form in the 1880s, largely due to the pioneering work of English philanthropist Alice Rowland Hart. While the weavers in County Donegal produce a number of different tweed fabrics, including herringbone and check patterns, the area is best known for a plain-weave cloth of differently-coloured warp and weft, with small pieces of yarn in various colours woven in at irregular intervals to produce a heathered effect. Such fabric is often labelled as "donegal" (with a lowercase "d") regardless of its provenance. Along with Harris Tweed manufactured in the Scottish Highlands, Donegal is
Donegal v Dublin (2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship) raid for the ages [...] In front of 81,500 sets of eyes, [Donegal] left Dublin looking like an old sweater turned inside out, its edges frayed and its patterns fuzzy". John O'Keeffe said Donegal "hadn't just beaten Dublin but completely dismantled them [...] once Donegal got themselves into a commanding position, Dublin looked very ordinary." Keith Duggan described Donegal's defeat of Dublin as "the most glorious proof of [...] a game plan which is unlike anything witnessed in Gaelic football before" and alluded to Muhammad Ali's cry: “I shocked the world! I shocked the world.” "So too did Donegal. Their