Michaelmas term Michaelmas term Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September. The term runs from September or October to Christmas. The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland. While the name is not used in the legal systems
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