1. " According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.
Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree’s bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern,” and then, simply “Jack O’Lantern. ” "
2. "Stingy Jack, also known as Jack the Smith*,* Drunk Jack*,* Flaky Jack*, and* Jack o' Lantern*, is a mythical character sometimes associated with* All Hallows Eve while also acting as the mascot of the holiday."
Edit*:* Jack's Lament
Hey r/MilitaryHistory!
My friend and I host a podcast where we each bring a Wikipedia article that the other has never read before and "teach" it to one another.
We recently did an episode looking at the famous/infamous Mad Jack Churchill himself - the man who quite literally brought a sword to a gunfight and survived in the Second World War.
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The wheel stopped on Irish Mythology Jump this time. That... well, Jack knew fuck all about Irish myth. Though... this would be the solution that, he supposed. A moment later he was once again faced with a long document full of numbers and beautiful, enticing words.
This time the build took longer, but he settled on it soon enough. He went all in on the blacksmith tree with the faerie race. Then he grabbed the human racial ability that was both anti-precognition and fate-breaking, and the evil eye formorian power. He also picked up the good immortal doggo.
His Pod friend took on the Fir Bolg race for their prophetic dreams of oncoming enemies and disasters and the Noble origin for its question-answering capstone, both so that it (now a she at Jack's request) may better advise him.
To pay for that, Jack took on some minor troubles (a cat's eye, losing some food to a spirit, a geas to eat nothing if meat is not a part of the meal, and a week of labor pains whenever it would be most inconvenient).
He locked his choices in, and the world faded to black.
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He got to work quickly upon arrival, and made himself some armor. Not just any armor though, he put his new logic-defying powers to work making the best that could be made. He started with a base of Sky Iron, added in his own divine blood, reinforced it with a warrior's determination, added some of Failinis' fur, quenched it with a gambler's victory tears, and polished with the sound of a maiden's first orgasm. All in all it took about two days to make, mostly due to Jack's need to find a warrior to take the determination from and a gambler to make cry. He and the newly-female Pod filled the last one, and after doing so Jack named her Cora. He then made her some similar armor, though it took a few hours longer because he had to find a new maiden to talk his way into the pants of (between 2Booty for looks, Gift of Gab for charisma, and looking fancy as fuck in his new armor, it didn't take long).
Next came weapons, which were even easier to make. He made himself a sword of death- again based in Sky Iron, he added a warrior's last breath, his divine blood, a the tears of a mother weeping for her murdered son, and quenched it in winter's icy chill. For Cora, he made a spear of the same
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I am going to pick Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957, Sligo) as Ireland’s greatest artist. And yes he was the brother of William Butler Yeats and son of the artist John Butler Yeats, notable in his own right.
(For background, here are my earlier posts on William Orpen, John Lavery, Mainie Jellett, and Harry Clarke. Here are a few contenders whom I ruled out from the get-go.)
Wikipedia offers the following useful description of Jack Yeats:
His favourite subjects included the Irish landscape, horses, circus and travelling players. His early paintings and drawings are distinguished by an energetic simplicity of line and colour, his later paintings by an extremely vigorous and experimental treatment of often thickly applied paint. He frequently abandoned the brush altogether, applying paint in a variety of different ways, and was deeply interested in the expressive power of colour. Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century (and the first to sell for over £1m), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.
I don’t think there are images I could show to convince you that Yeats should stand above the other contenders. His signature expressionist works are thick with three-dimensional texture, and [they look like crap on-line](https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/marginalrevolution/~https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+yeats&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9tp3P3c_zAhWOpnIEHal7D_oQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&b
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