Dead Irish Writers

"Dead Irish Writers"
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 59
Directed by	Alex Graves
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Paul Redford (story)
Production code	227216
Original air date	March 6, 2002
Guest stars
Mary-Louise Parker Roger Rees Hector Elizondo Robin Thomas NiCole Robinson
Season 3 episodes
October 10, 2001 – May 22, 2002 Isaac and Ishmael Documentary Special Manchester Part I Manchester Part II Ways and Means On the Day Before War Crimes Gone Quiet The Indians in the Lobby The Women of Qumar Bartlet for America H. Con-172 100,000 Airplanes The Two Bartlets Night Five Hartsfield's Landing Dead Irish Writers The U.S. Poet Laureate Stirred Enemies Foreign and Domestic The Black Vera Wang We Killed Yamamoto Posse Comitatus
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"Dead Irish Writers" is episode 59 of The West Wing.

Plot

As Abbey contemplates the likelihood that her medical license will be taken away the following day, she grumpily attends a big White House party for her birthday. Bartlet receives another visit from decorous British Ambassador Lord John Marbury, who argues against Bartlet's meeting with a member of Sinn Féin. Meanwhile, Sam meets with Senator Enlow, who is blocking the funding of a controversial scientific project that would cost billions, and is visited by his old college professor who harangues him to make peace with Enlow (whom Sam can't stand) to fund the project.

Donna discovers that the national border near her Minnesota birthplace has been redrawn slightly—making her officially a Canadian. Abbey, C.J. and Amy Gardner mischievously sneak out of Abbey's birthday party to gossip and get drunk. Donna joins them because her new citizenship status has kept her out of the party, and makes a pointed comment that brings the consequences of Abbey's actions home to her. Abbey then tells her husband that she will agree to surrender her license for as long as he is the President. Donna finds out she will be able to become a U.S. citizen again with a simple written test.

The title "Dead Irish Writers" comes from a discussion Toby and Lord John Marbury have regarding a controversial figure who has been invited to the White House. Marbury claims that the author is a member of the political wing of the IRA and repeatedly states that he "cannot come to the White House." Marbury then tells Toby that the conflict between Ireland and the UK is centuries old and the United States, because of its youth, cannot fully understand it. Marbury and Toby then exchange a series of quotes and loosely link them with the situation involving the long-standing conflict between Her Majesty's United Kingdom and the sovereign Irish Republic declared in 1916. At the end, Marbury obliquely tells Toby that precisely because he is an enemy in the conflict, the IRA leader should come to the White House after all (though official policy remains opposed to such a meeting). Interestingly, of the three quoted authors—Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, and Eugene O'Neill—only one of them, Joyce, was natively Irish. Kipling was born in Bombay, India to English parents, and O'Neill was born in New York, which has had a large Irish community since the Potato Famine of 1848.

Notes

• When it comes to drinks two regions known for producing alcoholic beverages are mispronounced. First Bartlet stresses Willamette where the Pinot Noir served that night is from, on the third instead of the second syllable and later Lord John Marbury pronounces the island Islay, where is Whisky is from, as it is written and not ˈaɪlə what would be the correct name.
• When Jed Bartlet challenges Abbey as to which organ of the body produces hydrochloric acid she answers "Pancreas". The answer, however, is the stomach.

External links

• The West Wing Episode Guide

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