Miriam O'Connor: When the family farm became a place of solace and photographic inspiration

Miriam O'Donovan and bovine assistant: "This was a new departure for sure and I had reservations about it."

After the death of her brother, Miriam O'Connor's photography helped her deal with the grief and an adjustment to a new life, writes Colette Sheridan.

When photographic artist, Miriam O'Connor, lost her brother, Jerome, to cancer in 2013, she moved back from Dublin to run the family farm just outside Macroom, along with her sister, Sheila. Jerome, who was only 49 when he died, had looked after the farm for nearly three decades.