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"A curious collision between politics with a small 'p' and the big top"
2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck explores how the circus was used as a frame for early 20th century Irish satire and the artist Edward Seago's fascination with the travelling spectacle
(Image: 漏 Arts and Humanities Research Council / Steven Haywood)
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