Are you a New Orleans native and do you have any Irish blood in you?

I am a New Orleans native and have lived in New Orleans all my life except for a brief stint in Houston. We are Irish on my mother’s side. My great-great-grandmother came over on what was known as the coffin ships—because as a result of the famine [1845-49], they came over in weakened conditions. She actually died on the voyage over. Her daughter met her future husband on the ship. So she got of...