Sweeney
Fleet Street barber
Sweeney is an Irish surname, from a Gaelic word meaning "pleasant." The name appears in various cultural contexts: Sweeney Todd is the fictional "demon barber of Fleet Street" who murders customers, and in Irish legend, Sweeney was a king cursed to wander as a bird.
The Sweeneys have lived in this town for generations.
- barberProfessional who trims locks
- Fleet StreetBritish journalism metonym
- demonMalevolent supernatural being
- razorBlade for removing hair
London · Victorian · murder · pie · revenge · musical · Broadway · thriller
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
Irish · family · patronymic · kinship · descent · bloodline · forebears · dynasty
Sondheim
- barberProfessional who trims locks
- Fleet StreetBritish journalism metonym
- demonMalevolent supernatural being
razor · London · Victorian · murder · pie · revenge · musical · Broadway · thriller · Lovett
genealogy
Study of family descent
clan · Irish · family · patronymic · kinship · descent · bloodline · forebears · dynasty · relatives
Gaelic
Celtic linguistic tradition
myth · legend · Ulster · medieval · translation · curse · kingship · wilderness · feathers · flying
Eliot
- modernistAdvocate of experimental forms
- allusionIndirect reference to something
- epigraphPrefatory quotation
satire · verse · poetry · fragment · wasteland · persona · dramatic monologue · alienation · symbolism · nightingale
- Irish SurnamesO'Brien, Murphy, Kelly, O'Neill, O'Connor
- T.S. EliotThe Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Cats, The Rock
Sweeneyhealer
One who restores health
caregiver · protector · Good Samaritan · Florence Nightingale · guardian
Sweeneyforgiver
One who pardons
Jean Valjean · Nelson Mandela · pacifist · Christ figure · Mahatma Gandhi
- Sweeney ToddHomicidal London barber
- Sydney Sweeney