Kurt Cobain Interview about Irish Roots

[@LimerickWarrior1]

ya I've often walked around Cork in tears as well....

[@phillyDazGak]

Hahahaha

[@philipcolohan8638]

Wishing I could get out of it lol

[@missjo252]

Ha ha! I can totally relate to this

[@ciaranwalsh2131]

hungover!

[@lukeluke295]

Lol

[@davidian2.024]

Kurt we Irish loved your soul you had no idea how much. God bless.

[@JamesCraigWhoop]

Love this. I am an avid family history person with Irish roots. Many people have a greater sense of who they are when they do their ancestral work. Often brought to tears

[@ciaranwalsh2131]

You should visit sometime!

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Makes me proud to be Irish.

[@tonyoriordan7642]

Same 🇮🇪

[@rubydawn1]

and the Irish love them

[@lukeluke295]

Me too

[@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917]

Another great Irishman

[@boddah]

he was american sorry

[@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917]

@@boddah Didn't you ever listen to the video? Or was it just lost on you???

[@boddah]

Irish people have constantly harassed me and called me fake Irish because I am Irish American. I have an irish last name, my families are from Ireland, same as Kurt here. But when an grunge rockstar icon has irish ancestry, you guys claim him as irish? bullshit. He's american. You cannot pick and choose just to make the ethnicity look better.

[@ed95755]

@@boddah wah wah write a song about and if it's successful... Well you know the rest

[@boddah]

what is your point lmao

[@jaxn13]

Everyone always told me to my annoyance I resembled Kurt. On my ancestry kit it said my ancestry is from cork/Waterford. It inspired me to book a trip there. Absolutely one of the best times of my life. As cliche as it sounds, I'll never forget it and the feeling I had there.

[@rubydawn1]

I believe you because I was the same way its like I felt like I belonged way before I found out in fact I do

[@joekreissl4499]

he was actually from carrickmore he was completely wrong

[@pjjameson8037]

Every Irish American traces ancestry to county cork because that's where the boat left..

[@thomaskelly6554]

Dec 1955 to Ellis Island

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

It’s annoys most of Ireland when Americans call themselves Irish because their great great great grandfather was from Cork. you’re not Irish unless you’re born in Ireland

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

@@user-go3jv8rw7i and neither are you marty , everyone knows what you are

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

john smith you’re calling me British? I personally am from North Dublin but ok? 🇮🇪🇵🇸

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

@@user-go3jv8rw7i all they're doing is claiming Irish heritage , what's your problem ,and by the the way you don't represent most of Ireland

[@daywar13]

I'm actually related to Kurt, Joshua Coburn and Mary Comins is the reason me and him are related.

[@cartesianphantom7396]

Lucky!

[@thedangerwich5476]

I'd love to visit Africa one day and have a similar experience.

[@CELTIC-CROSS]

what a loss RIP brother

[@rubydawn1]

Its so crazy when I was 17 I was in Halifax Nova Scotia and there was a parade for the Naval Day when the bagpipes started playing I got tears in my eyes and I was like what is this I felt such a connection. Years later I went to a neighborhood in Montreal for the first time that was an Irish neighborhood and I was like In love like I belong here ..many years later I found out i was mostly Irish had no clue before this.

[@jamesmurphy9630]

Bagpipes are Scottish

[@mccarthy5825]

That's awesome. I hope you make it over for a trip. All the best from 🇮🇪

[@rubydawn1]

@@mccarthy5825 for sure

[@Lucien234-i2z]

You are confusing Ireland with Scotland.

[@rubydawn1]

@@Lucien234-i2z for me the bagpipes are celtic and am always reminded of that even our st patricks parade have bagpipes playing at the start and all the way till the end

[@eileenmacdougall8945]

Probably why the truth poured out of him, even when some wished it didn't. The better side of the stubbornness in the Irish.

[@lucy45397]

PROUD TO BE FROM CORK CITY

[@venmxshadows]

Fuck Cork, up the Dubs 🙌

[@pureone26]

Kurt's mum Wendy 'O'Connor' means ancestry also from Ireland, an old irish name - of the royal bloodline - related to the last true King of Ireland, from Connacht. The O'Connor coat of arms has an oak tree on it, which can imply Druid ancestry, even Tuatha De Danann (the supernatural beings). At the end of his life Kurt was talking about divorcing Courtney and moving to Scotland or Ireland. Interesting also there were Frances's in the O'Connor kings history, which he names his daughter this life. I think 'Cobain' ended up being from northern ireland.

[@conorsmith8551]

At the time the coburns / Cobains emigrated it was Ireland then, it was before partition. Just saying but very interesting history he has. My ancestors are from around the same area in co down and co Antrim

[@lizparsons7301]

His mom is German. Maiden name is Frafenburg. She married an OConnor

[@bunnybrown809]

Tara☘

[@adammartin7007]

@@lizparsons7301 His Mom and Dad are both mixed European. Both had Irish ancestors, along with French, English and Scottish. There are smaller amounts of Dutch and German in there too, hence her surname.

[@marykline700]

Christ, why didn't he move to Cork if it gave him such a wondrous feeling,instead of doing what he did.

[@ps3baws]

+Mary Kline because he died o.0

[@lisamariek8083]

+Mary Kline Cause Courtney had him murdered :(

[@marcopiscopo2267]

in a foo fighters documentary, dave grohl (also drummer of nirvana) said that after kurt's death he didn't want to listen to music because it made him think about kurt so he went to cork (i think, in ireland anyway) and there wasn't anything. just trees, hills and goats. but, for some reason he saw a boy with a kurt cobain t-shirt. i think dave saw it as a sign of destiny that he had to continue to make music. a lot of mystical experience in cork for nirvana

[@marcopiscopo2267]

in a foo fighters documentary, dave grohl (also drummer of nirvana) said that after kurt's death he didn't want to listen to music because it made him think about kurt so he went to cork (i think, in ireland anyway) and there wasn't anything. just trees, hills and goats. but, for some reason he saw a boy with a kurt cobain t-shirt. i think dave saw it as a sign of destiny that he had to continue to make music. a lot of mystical experience in cork for nirvana

[@lisamariek8083]

Marco Piscopo yeah cork is in Ireland I live a couple of hours away from there! It’s a good thing that Dave started foofighters it kind of kept the spirit of Kurt alive I think

[@ciaran6309]

I'm from and yes I go around in tears everyday here.😮

[@rangerwhite5165]

Kurts family tracked down his ancestry, from the 1800s, they were from Carrickmore, County Tyrone.

[@TheHappys]

A great Irishman!!!

[@CathyD1976]

That's where He got His deep emotional depth from

[@kevindanner2090]

I had a 3rd great grandfather was born in county cork in 1822

[@elianioriofarrell]

I was born in Cork

[@RD-hs3oy]

Cool

[@kurtcobain4209]

I have English, Irish, Scottish?, German and maybe Dutch? Kurt had those but he also had French-Canadian

[@JDKelleherMusic]

YESSSSS!!

[@leesider]

Daycint

[@tsr6220]

Damn that’s crazy

[@briancannon3987]

This is where kurt retired to. Collecting 75% of nirvanas estate

[@adammartin7007]

The Cobains weren't from Cork but it turns out that some his mother's ancestors were.

[@The_TimeWizard]

poor oul kurt !

[@Lucien234-i2z]

Coburn (cockburn) is actually a Scottish and Northern English name. Coburn and Cobain are unrelated surnames. Cobain is a Irish name though.

[@FionnCr]

Cork'll do that to many a man

[@igolfjtweetler4097]

Hendrix Cherokee maternal grandma was half Irish. That makes him 1/8 Irish. Little known fact.

[@thomaskelly6554]

Spanish Armada sank 1588 Sailors swam to County Mayo. Therefore Irish have Spanish blood in them....