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Sweeney in Pop Culture

Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, British folk figure and subject of musical and film "Sweeney Todd"
Mad Sweeney aka Suibhne mac Colmain king of the Dál nAraidi, driven insane by St. Ronan's curse, subject of the Irish tale The Buile Shuibhne or Mad Sweeney
Sweeney main character in "Sweeney Agonistes" by T.S. Eliot, based on Mad Sweeney
Sweeney character in the novel At Swim,Two,Birds by Flann O'Brien, based on Mad Sweeney
"The Sweeney " TV series named after Sweeney Todd, Cockney rhyming slang for "flying squad"