# Harry Bohan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Bohan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Bohan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bohan > Source revision: 1331334470 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Irish Catholic priest, sociologist and hurling manager}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=August 2020}} '''Father Harry Bohan''' is an [Irish](/source/Irish_people) [Catholic priest](/source/Catholic_priest), [sociologist](/source/sociologist), and former manager of the [Clare county hurling team](/source/Clare_county_hurling_team). The son of Michael Bohan, a [Garda Síochána](/source/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na) officer, and Bridget Fitzgerald, who ran the pub opened in the 1890s by Bridget's parents Michael and Anne Fitzgerald,[http://www.discoveringireland.com/historic-irish-pubs-bohans-bar/ Bohans Bar] - ''Historic Irish Pubs'', extracts from 'The Story of the Irish Pub' by Cian Molloy, supplied with permission of the Liffey Press. Bohan grew up in [Feakle, County Clare](/source/Feakle%2C_County_Clare). He was educated at [St Flannan's College](/source/St_Flannan's_College) in [Ennis](/source/Ennis) and studied for the priesthood at [Maynooth College](/source/Maynooth_College). Bohan went on to study sociology in [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), and obtained an MA from the [University of Wales](/source/University_of_Wales).[http://www.ceifin.com/4/harryBohan.html Harry Bohan] - Ceifin Centre Bohan is now an assistant priest in the Tradaree pastoral area in [County Clare](/source/County_Clare). From 1973 to 1980, Bohan was manager of the Clare senior hurling team which won two [National Hurling League](/source/National_Hurling_League) titles, and more recently{{when|date=August 2022}} served as a [selector](/source/Selector_(sport)) for manager [Anthony Daly](/source/Anthony_Daly_(hurler)). In 2006 he was recognised for his services to hurling by a special award.[http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/clare-snub-loughnane-on-double-in-awards-26398849.html Clare snub Loughnane on double in awards] - ''Irish Independent Sport''. A campaigner for Rural Ireland, he set up the Rural Resource Centre, and in 1998 he set up the Ceilfin Centre.[http://catholicjournalist.com/harry_bohan.php Harry Bohan] - ''Catholic Journalist'' His brother Seamus succeeded their mother as landlord of the family pub in Feakle,{{fact|date=August 2020}} which he advertised for sale in 2023.https://www.myhome.ie/commercial/brochure/bohan-s-bar-main-street-feakle-clare/4685076 Fr Harry's nephew [Mick](/source/Mick_Bohan) is a football coach.{{cite news|url=https://www.clare.fm/sport/praise-for-new-clare-coach-bohan-ahead-of-mcgrath-cup-final/|title=Praise for new Clare coach Bohan ahead of McGrath Cup Final|date=26 January 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/meet-mick-bohan-the-man-spearheading-clares-football-revolution-34925541.html|title=Meet Mick Bohan — the man spearheading Clare's football revolution|work=[Sunday Independent](/source/Sunday_Independent_(Ireland))|first=Michael|last=Verney|date=31 July 2016}} ==Publications== * ''Swimming Upstream: Finding Positives in a Negative Ireland'' by Harry Bohan, [Columbia University Press](/source/Columbia_University_Press), 2013. * ''Community and the Soul of Ireland: The Need for Values-based Change'' by Harry Bohan, 2002. * ''The Challenge: Balance between City and Rural Life'' by Harry Bohan, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 74, No. 295 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 267–280. Published by: Irish Province of the [Society of Jesus](/source/Society_of_Jesus). ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Clare Hurling Team 1977}} {{Clare Hurling Team 1978}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bohan, Harry}} Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Category:Hurling managers Category:Hurling selectors Category:Irish sociologists Category:People educated at St Flannan's College Category:20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Category:21st-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Category:Christian clergy from County Clare {{Clare-hurling-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Harry Bohan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bohan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bohan?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.