P. G. O'Neill (1924 – 19 January 2012) was a British academic and writer on Japanese language and Noh drama.[1][2]
O'Neill was, with Ronald P. Dore, Sir Peter Parker and John R. McEwan, one of the "Dulwich boys", 30 sixth-formers who commenced study of Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in May 1942.[3][4]
O'Neill was Professor of Japanese at SOAS from 1968 until 1986.[2]
Works
editon Noh
- Collected Writings ISBN 4-931444-37-7
- A Guide to No
- Early No Drama
- Japan on Stage
on Japanese language
- A Reader of Handwritten Japanese
- Japanese Kana Handbook
- A programmed course on respect language in modem Japanese. London: English Universities Press, 1966.[5]
- Essential Kanji. (a sequenced introduction to the Tōyō kanji 1946–1981)
- 日英佛教語辞典 A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms, Based on References in Japanese Literature (with INAGAKI, Hisao 稲垣久雄, Kyoto 1984).
- 中日英佛教語辞典 Chinese-Japanese-English-French Teaching Terms Lexicon. (enlarged edition of above)
- 日本人名辞典 - dictionary of variant pronunciations of Japanese personal names and surnames.
- 日本人名地名辞典 - personal names, surnames and place names dictionary
References
edit- ^ オニール(Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill)： 1924年生まれ。ロンドン大学東洋アフリカ研究部（SOAS）にて日本語を学び、能の研究で博士号取得。同大学教授、日本語学科長等歴任。日本語の敬語、書記法や能の研究とともに、数多くの外国人向け日本語教科書の著者として著名。著書に日英佛教語辞典、中日英佛教語辞典、日本人名辞典、A Guide to No, A Reader of Handwritten Japanese, Early No Drama, Japanese Kana Handbook, Essential Kanji, Japan on Stage (河竹登志夫著英訳)等。収録論文分野：日本語、能、日本の祭りなど。
- ^ a b "Professor P. G. O'Neill". The Times.
- ^ Ōba, Sadao. The 'Japanese' war: London University's WWII secret teaching 1995 p11 "There were five war-time courses in Japanese at SOAS. ...who to this day are known affectionately as 'the Dulwich boys'."
- ^ Bayly, Christopher Alan; Harper, Timothy Norman. 'Forgotten armies: the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 2005 Page 259 "They were known as the 'Dulwich Boys', lodged as they were at Tin Tut's alma mater, Dulwich College."
- ^ review