Richard Corish

Richard Corish (17 September 1886 – 19 July 1945) was an Irish politician and trade unionist.

Early and personal life

Born in Wexford in 1886, Corish was the eldest child of carpenter Peter Corish and Mary Murphy. 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.

In 1913, he married Katherine Bergin and they had six children.

Politics

Richard Corish became Mayor of Wexford in 1920 as an Irish Labour Party representative. 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. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He ran as a member of the Labour Party at the 1922 general election. 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.

Corish was a member of the Irish National Foresters, and was its High Chief Ranger in 1942.

See also

* Families in the Oireachtas

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1886 births
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