Colored Doors of Dublin

While we walked around Dublin on our first night, we could not help but notice the lovely colored doors - and as we found - every thing in Ireland has a story - here is the story of the doors. 

 It was the death of Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, which put her into such a state of mourning, she ordered all doors in the entire British Empire to be painted black. The Irish, being opposed to caving to such orders, immediately painted their doors as colorfully as was possible at the time.