Riots of Colour
“The house was decorated in the style now customary all over Ireland: multi-coloured carpets, multi-coloured curtains, multi-coloured wallpaper, multi-coloured pictures on the wall. No one, surrounded by so much colour, could remember their ancestors, or their immediate forebears, without considerable pride and joy at how much things had improved. No more mud cabins, no more Puritan grey; Protestant and Catholic united in layer after layer of colours, carpets patterned in squares of red and yellow, wallpaper in long stripes of blue and gold, curtains in vivid pink and white. Riots of colour.”
— Colm Tóibín, Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border
