'Beyond everything': one woman's ghostly odyssey around Ireland

Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen made repeated trips to Ireland after losing her husband, and death was a shadowy presence on the fantasy isle wherever she pointed her lens“Where can it be found again, an elsewhere world, beyond maps and atlases,” wrote Seamus Heaney in the final lines of A Herbal, a poem in which human mortality is contrasted with the circular and continuous life force that is nature – lush grass growing from earth in a graveyard. When Dutch photographer,