For the American jazz guitarist, see Charlie Byrd.
Charlie Bird
Bird in 2007
Born
(1949-09-09)9 September 1949
Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Died
11 March 2024(2024-03-11) (aged 74)
Magheramore, County Wicklow, Ireland
Nationality
Irish
Education
Sandymount High School
Occupation
Journalist
Notable credit
RTÉ News
Spouses
Mary O'Connor
(m. 1974; div. 1998)
Claire Mould
(m. 2016)
Children
2
Charles Brown Bird (9 September 1949 – 11 March 2024) was an Irish journalist and broadcaster. He was Chief News Correspondent with RTÉ News until January 2009. He took up the role of Washington Correspondent, but prematurely returned to his earlier post in Ireland in June 2010. He retired from RTÉ in August 2012.
a man pleaded guilty to violent disorder and assaulting Bird. Bird presented the CharlieBird Explores series in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In this collection...
discography at Discogs Charlie Parker discography Charlie Parker Sessionography Clips and notes about Parker Bird Lives – Thinking About Charlie Parker Great Lives...
This is a list of recordings by American jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker ("Bird"). Parker primarily recorded for three labels: Savoy, Dial, and Verve...
Bird on Money is a 1981 painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981. It is a tribute to jazz musician Charlie Parker, who was nicknamed...
and relatives of some of the 48 people who died were interviewed by CharlieBird. Bird had been the journalist to the scene of the fire in 1981. On 2 February...
CharlieBird Explores is the title of a series of documentary films shot by RTÉ News and Current Affairs chief news correspondent CharlieBird, in which...
Nine) 9 March – Vince Power, 76, music festival promoter. 11 March – CharlieBird, 74, broadcast journalist, motor neurone disease. 15 March – Emmet Bergin...
or Charlie Byrd or Bird may refer to: Charlie Byrd (1925–1999), American jazz guitarist CharlieBird (born 1949), Irish journalist Charlie "Bird" Parker...
television presenter (News2day, Reporting Scotland, The Nine) 11 March – CharlieBird, 74, broadcast journalist (RTÉ News). 14 April – Larry Masterson, 74...
2007 she won a Justice Media Award for her work on road safety with CharlieBird and in 2011 and 2012 she was named Transport Journalist of the Year....
1960 with conductor Gunther Schuller, and released as Pre-Bird, referring to Charlie "Bird" Parker; Mingus was one of many musicians whose perspectives...
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indie pop band AJR made an appearance. Former BYU mascot and dancer, CharlieBird, also performed a choreographed number along with some dancers from the...
for Alice changes, Bird changes, Bird Blues, or New York Blues changes, is a chord progression, often named after Charlie Parker ("Bird"), which is a variation...
his first lead role starring as jazz alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in Clint Eastwood's Bird. To prepare himself for the part, Whitaker took saxophone...
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) before his leading role in Clint Eastwood's Bird (1988). Whitaker continued acting in films such as The Crying Game (1992)...
December 4, 2020. Downes, John (November 3, 2004). "Michael Flatley and CharlieBird among those honoured by UCD". The Irish Times. Scanlon, Eoin (May 7,...
Bird and Diz is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. It was recorded primarily on June 6, 1950, in New York...
Charles Bird may refer to: CharlieBird (1949–2024), Irish journalist and broadcaster Charles Smith Bird (1795–1862), English academic, cleric and theological...
Charlie Parker with Strings is the name of two separate albums by jazz musician Charlie Parker, released in 1950 on Mercury Records. It is also the name...
solo. "Bird Calls", in Mingus's own words, was not a reference to bebop saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker: "It wasn't supposed to sound like Charlie Parker...