Doors of Dublin

Hi lads,

Another thing about Dublin I'd like to share is the story about the doors of Dublin. Take a quickly walk around the city and you'll see many colorful doors in residential building. Red, blue, yellow, green... a plenty of brighter colors, including I sent to my fiancé a post card with many of these doors stamped.

The tradition of painting the doors took place after Queen Victoria's death. She was the queen of England and Ireland in 19th century, in fact Ireland was under England's rules.

When she died England ordered all citizens of Ireland to paint their doors black in respectful to queen's death, but several people painted the doors different colors, just in protest order. After that it became an Irish tradition.

There's another version. Some people tell women used to painted their doors to help their husbands to find home when they got back drunk, because sometimes they entered into wrong houses and had sex with wrong wifes. That's weird!!!