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
Lewis Wormser Harris in Kildare as a Liberal. Harris died on 1 August 1876 in Bray, County Wicklow. Lewis Wormser Harris Lewis Wormser Harris (1812-1876) was a bill-broker, financier, member of Dublin Corporation and prominent member of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. He was the first Jewish person elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, but died before he could take office. Harris was born Samuel Wormser on 5 April 1812, to Isaac Samuel Wormser and Sheinle Ephraim, in Aldingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. He moved to Ireland in 1821, living in the residence of a Charles Harris, a watchmaker, and soon after adopted the surname Harris.