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Your Place And Mine will be asking its contributors to nominate a favourite book that conveys a sense of place, while Classical Connections will broadcast from the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy.

On Sunday, Nandi was one of 10 poets taking part in a commemoration event at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace.

The infrastructure that exists for writers - such as the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, which is getting a new £4.9m venue; the HomePlace in Bellaghy; and various organisations and groups - she says has come "off the back of Heaney - and we don't take that for granted".

Nelson, 76, is known for such collections as “The Homeplace” and “Fields of Praise,” while also writing children’s books and translating works from the Danish and ancient Greek.

“Our homeplace was 2109 Scovel St., so I know that personally we never received any advance notice of a public hearing,” Love Sr. testified in 1967, saying they were “near the last to be notified” of the interstate route.