The Georgian Houses on Merrion Square

Scattered throughout the city, Georgian houses are a common sight in Ireland, even more so in Dublin. You can easily recognise them with their brick facades and white-framed windows. These tall 18th-century bourgeois residences have always been a joke between the Irish. Why? Because of their doors, each painted in a different color. Legend has it that a fed up writer once decided to paint his door a bright green to stop his neighbour—coming home drunk from the pub every night—from mistakenly entering the wrong house yet again. The infamous neighbour, either annoyed or simply a fan of this idea, decided to repaint his own front door as well. And just like that, a trend was born! What started as a simple way to tell houses apart gradually became art, much to our delight.