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Conor Coyle

Carrickmore and Nirvana: Kurt Cobain’s Co Tyrone roots explained

Few would think there would be any connection between one of the world’s biggest rockstars and the Co Tyrone parish of Termonmaguirc.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, who died by suicide in 1994, spoke in the months before his death of discovering his Irish heritage, but never managed to find out the extent of his roots here.

Samuel and Letitia Cobane, as the original spelling was, left the Carrickmore townland of Inishatieve with their six children in 1875 for Ontario, Canada.

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