Back in the year of 2000 I saw at Irish Times online newspaper there are at least fourteen different ways to spell Ryan. Sargeant Brink at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois in 1963, he used to pronounce my last name as Rynk. Rynk is not one of those ways to spell Ryan, according to Irish Times. Of course you know how it T'IS, Vice President Ryan will have to go to Ireland to trace his Irish roots. http://www.ryans.org