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 literary success; though gradually, beginning in 1937, Welsh writing in English received encouragement from Welsh-based literary and critical journals, initially "Wales", published by Keidrych Rhys in three intermittent series between 1937 and 1960. Next came the "Welsh Review", published by Gwyn Jones, first in 1939 and then between 1944 and 1948. (See also "Life and Letters Today", which between 1938–50 contained works by and about many Welsh writers in English.) An early work of the first wave of Anglo-Welsh writers was "The Withered Root" (1927) by Rhys Davies (1901–78) from the Rhondda Valley. While he probably wrote more fiction about