Hilary term Hilary term Hilary term is the second academic term of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin and also Deepdene School near Portslade in East Sussex. It runs from January to March and is so named because the feast day of St Hilary of Poitiers, 14 January, falls during this term. All terms are dated from this day in the following way: The term originated in the legal system. The courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Ireland divide the legal year into four terms: Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas. At the University of Oxford, following the resolution made
Welsh literature in English her writing, including "Brothers" (1983), where parallels with her own ancestry are obvious: it follows four generations of a family which flees Russia for South Wales. As only a couple of her 25 novels have a Welsh setting she does not fit the narrower definitions of Welsh writing in English. Amongst more recent Welsh writers in English, Niall Griffiths is notable for his novels "Grits" and "Sheepshagger", which portray a grittier side to Welsh literature; and Malcolm Pryce who has writing a number of humorous send ups of "noir" such as "Aberystwyth Mon Amour". Both of these writers were born