Richard Corish | |
|---|---|
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| Teachta Dála | |
| In office May 1921 – 19 July 1945 | |
| Constituency | Wexford |
| Mayor | |
| In office 1920–1945 | |
| Constituency | Wexford |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 September 1886 Wexford, Ireland |
| Died | 19 July 1945 (aged 58) |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Other political affiliations | Sinn Féin |
| Spouse |
Katherine Bergin (m. 1913) |
| Children | 6 |
| Education | CBS Wexford |
Richard Corish (17 September 1886 – 19 July 1945) was an Irish politician and trade unionist.[1]
Born in Wexford in 1886, Corish was the eldest child of carpenter Peter Corish and Mary Murphy.[2] He was educated by the Christian Brothers in the town. As a fitter in the Wexford Engineering foundry he was blacklisted by his employers after the 1911 Lockout, and became a trade union official in the new Irish Foundry Workers' Union.[3][4]
In 1913, he married Katherine Bergin and they had six children.
Richard Corish became Mayor of Wexford in 1920 as an Irish Labour Party representative.[5] However, as the Labour Party in the southern 26 counties, later the Irish Free State, chose not to contest the 1921 elections, Corish ran as a Sinn Féin candidate and was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Wexford constituency.[6] He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it.[2] He ran as a member of the Labour Party at the 1922 general election.[6] He served in the Dáil and as Mayor of Wexford until his death in 1945.
His death caused a by-election to the Dáil which was won by his son, Brendan Corish, who was later a leader of the Labour Party and Tánaiste.[5]
Corish was a member of the Irish National Foresters, and was its High Chief Ranger in 1942.
