http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Searching-for-his-birth-mother-Frank-Snelling-discovers-an-Irish-brother-he-never-knew-he-had.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Landrieu

In 1845, in Louisiana, USA, the Priests were exhorting the Immigrant Irish to forsake the grog halls of New Orleans and go up the Mississippi. like the Germans to claim the free land

Declarations of intent to be US Citizens filed at Courthouse Natrona, Casper, Wyoming, USA, 1894-1916 from Muintervara/Kilcrohane, West Cork.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=l000550

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/generation-emigration/a-tale-of-two-brothers-separated-for-44-years-1.2044118