Seamus Metress

Seamus Metress (born 1933) is a professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo, Ohio. He has been teaching at the university level for over 30 years. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1971. Also, he attended The University of Notre Dame, when it was an all-boys college.


 * Areas of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Medical Anthropology, Conflict in Northern Ireland
 * Research: Biocultural Anthropology, Irish Studies and Ethnic Conflict
 * Field Research projects in Northeast Ireland and the Great Lakes Region.

Quotes
On the topic of the Great Famine of Ireland:


 * "These same apologists feel that there was nothing that any government could have done to ameliorate the situation. The poor British tried, but were simply overwhelmed by the logistics of the operation. In their view the starvation was the inevitable outcome of demography and the prevalent economic theory of the day." (From The Great Starvation and British Imperialism in Ireland.)