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Shaughnessy is a family surname of Irish origin that is sometimes used as a first name.
It may also refer to:
- O'Shaughnessy, a traditional Irish surname
- Shaughnessy, Vancouver, a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Shaughnessy Village, a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Shaughnessy, Alberta, a village in Canada
- Charles Shaughnessy (born 1955), English television, theatre and film actor
- Clark Shaughnessy (1892 – 1970), American Football coach
- Edward L. Shaughnessy, expert on early Chinese history
- Francis Shaughnessy (1911 – 1982), American ice hockey player
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Frank Shaughnessy (1884 – 1969), minor league baseball official who invented a playoff system
- Shaughnessy playoff system, postseason tournament format invented by Frank Shaughnessy and adopted by American professional sports leagues
- Meghann Shaughnessy (born 1979), American professional tennis player
- Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924 – 1978), a pioneering academic in the field of Basic Writing
- Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Canadian journalist
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Shaughnessy Cohen (1948 - 1998), Canadian politician
- Shaughnessy Cohen Award, writing award established in her memory
Usage examples of "shaughnessy".
But the reason audiences returned to the theater again and again was because they could count on Tom Shaughnessy to surprise them, to feed their ceaseless appetite for novelty, and Tom knew he would soon need another small surprise to keep his audiences from becoming restless.
Tom Shaughnessy, it was as though someone had taken a tight little fist and rapped it between her lungs.
No doubt, given the luck she was experiencing thus far today, Tom Shaughnessy was a flamboyant criminal of some sort.
Tom Shaughnessy partook of these young ladies as one would a box of sweets.
General muttered something, and Sylvie could have sworn he was taking the name of Tom Shaughnessy in vain.
Tom Shaughnessy was like a mirror in which the world was reflected backward, different, brand-new, infuriating.
Knew Jack had probably found the lure of gin more appealing than the lure of a few more bob from Tom Shaughnessy and had left his post for that reason.
Surely London was filled with gaming hells and pubs and places where men like Tom Shaughnessy could find entertainment and feminine company and more women over whom to fight duels.
Grammy Shaughnessy would have called them, had she lived to see her grandchild.
He knew a moment of awe: Tom Shaughnessy, former street urchin, would soon own one of the largest buildings in London, and the wealthiest men in London would flock to it in order to be entertained.
Tom Shaughnessy had trailed off when he saw Sylvie perched on a chair opposite Josephine, a basket of sewing demurely on her lap.
It occurred to Sylvie then that Tom Shaughnessy employed rather a lot of people and kept all of them hopping.
Sylvie saw Tom Shaughnessy at the head of the aisle, his bright eyes fixed rather emphatically on her, walking stick in hand, marking off time almost absently.
The General and Tom Shaughnessy were wearing genuine frowns now, and they were both directed at her.
The White Lily was the thing Tom Shaughnessy had built to separate him from his old life, in the way ballet was the thing that had lifted her up out of the ordinary.