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 and Welsh. Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480), whose "Hymn to the Virgin" was written at Oxford in England in about 1470 and uses a Welsh poetic form, the "awdl", and Welsh orthography; for example: A rival claim for the first Welsh writer to use English creatively is made for the poet, John Clanvowe (1341–1391). Clanvowe's best-known work was "The Book of Cupid, God of Love" or "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale". which is influenced by Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls". "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" had