Product Description: After ordination in 1963, Harry Bohan studied sociology with a view to understanding and interpreting `the signs of the times' in a changing Ireland. He is recognized as a leading social commentator and has been the driving force behind several practical projects aimed at strengthening `family and community', including the Rural Resource Organization and the Cifin Centre for Values-led Change...read more

Product Description: The question of leadership has to be one of the most critical facing us as a society right now. The twentieth century was about institutions; they shaped us. There is now a distrust of the institutions that were central to our lives, and people are calling into question the way leadership has been exercised...read more

Product Description: Broadens our awareness of the current state of family life and the changing nature of relationships between home, school, and work-place-placing particular emphasis on a new vision for the changing family. Papers of the Ceifin Conference of 2008.

Product Description: Papers given at the 2007 Ceifin Conference. They recall and trace what has happened in key areas of Irish life over the last decade, the economic development, and the shift in values.

Product Description: There is little dispute that Ireland in the twenty-first century is a society in transformation. With an economy registering unparalleled growth, a rising population buoyed by an enriching immigrant community and an overall confidence in the future, the Irish have much to celebrate...read more

Product Description: The Ceifin Centre for Values-Led Change is about holding a mirror up to the reality of modern society. Based in Shannon, it has been doing this in different ways since its foundation in 1998. One of these ways is through its annual conference, which now attracts over 500 people from a cross-section of Irish society and is the focus of widespread media coverage...read more

Product Description: This book is a collection of papers from the 7th Ceifin Conference, which is held annually in Ennis, Co. Claire in Ireland.

Product Description: Fr. Harry Bohan, Director of the Ceifin Institute, is recognised as one of the leading social critics in Ireland today. An innovative and original thinker, Fr. Bohan argues that the economic success of recent years, while obviously welcome in many ways, has come at a considerable cost...read more

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