{"product_id":"9780992343347","title":"Saving St Brigid's","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the top of a hill in south-west Victoria, surrounded by rolling green hills that fall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaway to the Southern Ocean, sits a grand old red-brick church. For more than 150\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyears, these fertile volcanic fields have sustained the largest rural population of Irish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edescent in Australia. Built and paid for by the children of potato-famine survivors,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt Brigid’s is a symbol of faith and hope in an ancient land, by a cold, wild sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, the Catholic Church put the church and hall up for sale, against the wishes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the local community. What began as a small local issue soon became a national\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enews story, in a battle that went all the way to Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaving St Brigid’s \u003c\/em\u003eis the truly unique story of a small Australian rural community who,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the spirit of their Irish rebel ancestors, stood up for what they believed in. Their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efight for justice awakened the author to the richness of her Irish Catholic culture,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand its lasting legacy on the community, and the Church, she grew up in. Through\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe lens of her Irish heritage and that of the local Indigenous people, she weaves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etogether a lyrical narrative of song and story, and discovers just how much our\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eancestral traditions have to teach us if we are to transform the world we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bridin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49849787220208,"sku":"9780992343347","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780992343347","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}