ScotlandDNA, an ancestry testing company, has recently discovered a DNA marker that strongly suggests that ten percent of Scotsmen are directly descended from the Picts, the Gaels’ fierce neighbors who battled the Romans.

A New York publican has promised the mother and father of all St Patrick’s Day parties after bashing the bookies at Cheltenham.

Dance show creator, Michael Flatley, has presented Taoiseach Enda Kenny with an abstract painting of the victims of the famine entitled ‘The Walking Dead.' The painting is 8ft by 4ft in size and was framed in London using wood from trees grown on Flatley’s Castlehyde estate near Fermoy, Co. Cork.

A portrait of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been purchased by London's National Portrait Gallery.

A painting by Irish artist Sir John Lavery was sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby’s in New York. It was the second largest price ever paid for a Sir John Lavery painting, reports the Irish Times.

Police in Dublin have arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with the damage of Monet’s 1874 painting “Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat.”

The third trailer of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” has been released online and it truly looks jaw-droppingly good. It seems the “Inception”, “Dark Knight” director will live up to his reputation of spectacular visuals.

A Dublin street artist has painted a massive mural of St. Patrick on the side wall of a new skate park in Forth Smith, Arkansas. The painting is based on a design by Irish graphic artist Jim Fitzpatrick and features words by singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey.

Irish dancer Michael Flatley sold his first painting at auction on Friday for €5,600.

The leaders of Ireland’s 1916 Rising against British rule have been turfed out of one of the country’s top golf clubs – in a fund raising move.

Andy Warhol has hit payola for the beleaguered Irish taxpayer in New York – thanks to a painting inspired by the US dollar!

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