Early Life
Bird was born in Sandymount, Dublin in 1949. He was educated at Sandymount High School.
In the late 1960s, Bird took an active interest in far left politics, being a member of Young Socialists. In this role, along with Tariq Ali of the International Marxist Group, he attended the funeral of Peter Graham of Saor Éire who was assassinated on 25 October 1971 in an internecine dispute. A photograph of the funeral shows Ali and Bird giving a clenched fist salute at the grave. Charlie Bird was recruited into RTÉ by Eoghan Harris in the mid 1970s.
In the early 1970s he joined Official Sinn Féin and in 1973 was their director of elections in Dublin South–Central.
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