Electronic Sheep X Nuala O’Connor Collaboration Scarf 

‘I AM IRELAND' ES X NOC COLLABORATION TRIANGLE SCARF

Electronic Sheep are delighted to announce their literary collaboration with novelist Nuala O'Connor to mark Ulysses 100th anniversary this year. Nuala has written an award winning book Nora which is about James Joyce's muse and wife Nora Barnacle. The merino knit scarf named ‘I am Ireland’ scribes a wonderful chapter from Nora. The scarf is executed in Electronic Sheep's signature authentic typographic style.

Chapter featured on scarf ———

Ireland

Finn’s Hotel, Dublin

July 16, 1904

To Jim I am Ireland.

I’m island shaped, he says, large as the land itself, small as the Muglins, a woman on her back, splayed and hungry, waiting for her lover. I’m limestone and grass, heather and granite. I am rising paps and cleft of valley. I’m the raindrops that soak and the sea that rims the coast.

Jim says I am harp and shamrock, tribe and queen. I am high cross and crowned heart, held between two hands. I’m turf, he says, and bog cotton. I am the sun pulling the moon on a rope to smile over the Maamturk Mountains.

Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honorable barnacle goose.

‘Nora,’ Jim says, ‘you are syllable, word, sentence, phrase, paragraph, and page. You’re fat vowels and shushing sibilants.’

‘Nora,’ Jim says, ‘you are story.’

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Size & Fit Information:
This item's measurements are: 180CM (ACROSS) X 62CM (MIDDLE DROP)

• material: 100% merino wool
• hand drawn imagery by Electronic Sheep from their eponymous comic
• ethically produced
• made in Europe (Greece)
• supersoft, breathable yarn
• hand wash
• comes in screen-printed tote bag