Saving St Brigid's - Book Out Now!
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Thanks to all my wonderful supporters, 'Saving St Brigid's' is available to buy now at: www.savingstbrigids.com.au
Also, I'd love you to come along to my launch events: http://savingstbrigids.com.au/pages/events (And if you can draw an audience, I'm more than willing to come and speak about my book in your community!)
Saving St Brigid's is a story about St Brigid’s church and hall, the cornerstone a rural community for 130 years.
It was put up for sale by the Catholic Church and became the heart of a struggle that went all the way to Rome.
St Brigid’s sits in the heartland of Irish Australia. It was built and paid for by our ancestors – children of the Irish famine, as a legacy to their children.
It was to uphold their legacy that I decided to stand up alongside my community and fight to protect it. I had to share this story, and so I wrote a book about it, called "Saving St Brigid's".
When our story aired on the 7:30 Report it lit a fire in the heads of people across the nation and garnered some high profile support, from human rights lawyer, Frank Brennan and Indigenous elders, Archie Roach and the late Ruby Hunter.
“Irish heritage and Australian folk music mix poignantly with Mary Black, Shane Howard, Marcia Howard, Archie Roach and the late Ruby Hunter rendering in song the parallels between indigenous dispossession and the alienation of the faithful from institutional religion" Fr Frank Brennan S.J
In June, it will be 100 years since my great grandfather told the congregation at the opening of St Brigid's that they wanted to leave a legacy for their children. It’s imperative that this story finds its audience before next June.
By supporting me, you'll be supporting a small rural community. Part proceeds of the profits of my book will go directly to The Friends of St Brigid's Association Inc, to pay off their $200,000 community mortgage – to keep our buildings in community hands.
This is my first ever book. I need you to help me spread the word. After you've read my book, I would love it if you could write a review on my website and like my page on Facebook.
Thanks. My community and I really appreciate your support,
Regina
* Photo's courtesy of Rob Gunstone and Aaron Sawall of the Warrnambool Standard and Robin Sharrock.
Also, I'd love you to come along to my launch events: http://savingstbrigids.com.au/pages/events (And if you can draw an audience, I'm more than willing to come and speak about my book in your community!)
Saving St Brigid's is a story about St Brigid’s church and hall, the cornerstone a rural community for 130 years.
It was put up for sale by the Catholic Church and became the heart of a struggle that went all the way to Rome.
St Brigid’s sits in the heartland of Irish Australia. It was built and paid for by our ancestors – children of the Irish famine, as a legacy to their children.
It was to uphold their legacy that I decided to stand up alongside my community and fight to protect it. I had to share this story, and so I wrote a book about it, called "Saving St Brigid's".
When our story aired on the 7:30 Report it lit a fire in the heads of people across the nation and garnered some high profile support, from human rights lawyer, Frank Brennan and Indigenous elders, Archie Roach and the late Ruby Hunter.
“Irish heritage and Australian folk music mix poignantly with Mary Black, Shane Howard, Marcia Howard, Archie Roach and the late Ruby Hunter rendering in song the parallels between indigenous dispossession and the alienation of the faithful from institutional religion" Fr Frank Brennan S.J
In June, it will be 100 years since my great grandfather told the congregation at the opening of St Brigid's that they wanted to leave a legacy for their children. It’s imperative that this story finds its audience before next June.
By supporting me, you'll be supporting a small rural community. Part proceeds of the profits of my book will go directly to The Friends of St Brigid's Association Inc, to pay off their $200,000 community mortgage – to keep our buildings in community hands.
This is my first ever book. I need you to help me spread the word. After you've read my book, I would love it if you could write a review on my website and like my page on Facebook.
Thanks. My community and I really appreciate your support,
Regina
* Photo's courtesy of Rob Gunstone and Aaron Sawall of the Warrnambool Standard and Robin Sharrock.
The Challenges
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Thanks! I’ll list you on my website, and you’ll get an invite to my launch event in November 2013, at St Brigid's in Crossley, Victoria, or a venue in Melbourne.
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Est. delivery is Nov 13
You’ll be the proud owner of a signed and dedicated paperback copy of ‘Saving St Brigid’s’, mailed to you pre-launch. NB: The retail price of a paperback will be $30. Your donation today, includes postage of $14.80.
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Est. delivery is Nov 13
You'll receive a signed, dedicated hardback copy of my book, "Saving St Brigid's", delivered pre-launch. NB: The retail price of a hardback edition will be $40. Your donation today includes mailing costs of $14.80
58 chosen / 242 available
Est. delivery is Oct 13
You’ll receive a copy of the book, plus a home cooked lunch with me, the community campaigner and author. (Lunch will be either in Melbourne, or Victoria's South West district).
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Est. delivery is Jan 14
A copy of the book, plus a workshop for you and your community (in Victoria), whether it be in creative writing, community campaigning, grant writing, governance, fundraising, Obama style organising or media training. I have ten years work experience in these areas from the Make Poverty History campaign in London, to the United Nations in New York, to GetUp!, the Australian Conservation Foundation and now, the Australian National Development Index.
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Est. delivery is Feb 14
A weekend for a family of four, in the most Irish part of Victoria, at a farm homestay in Crossley, with a view over Tower Hill Lake and St Brigid's Church - 2 minutes to the Irish village of Koroit, and a 10 minute drive to the historic fishing village at Port Fairy, in South West Victoria. Includes a tour of St Brigid’s church and hall, and other historical sites by me and my parents (whose memory goes back a lot further than mine!)
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Est. delivery is Jan 14
A family ticket + camping (2 adults and 3 children) to the Lake School of Irish Music and Dance in Koroit in January 2014, a week-long festival of toe tapping Irish music and dance, where you and your family can learn an Irish instrument, learn Gaelic, dance in a traditional Irish Ceili dance, network with the best of Australia’s Irish musical talent and enjoy a summer holiday on the beach at the end of the Great Ocean Road. For more information, see: http://www.lakeschool.bushwahzee.com
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Est. delivery is Jan 14