Spinning and weaving were arts cultivated by the women, each household providing materials for clothing, which was little used in warm weather, and thrown off when fighting or any other serious work was to be done.
I should be sorry to disparage the Celtic race, or any other race, by exaggerating their bad qualities or suppressing any reliable testimony to their merits.

But with me the truth of history is sacred.

Both sides of every case should be fairly stated.

Nothing can be gained by striving to hide facts which may be known to every person who takes the trouble to study the subject.

I write in the interest of the people--of the toiling masses; and I find that they were oppressed and degraded by the ruling classes long before the Norman invader took the place of the Celtic chief.