P. G. O'Neill (1924 – 19 January 2012) was a British academic and writer on Japanese language and Noh drama.
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.
O'Neill was Professor of Japanese at SOAS from 1968 until 1986.
Works
on 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.
- 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
- 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。
- ^ "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."
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