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Richard Corish
Teachta Dála
In office
May 1921 – 19 July 1945
ConstituencyWexford
Mayor
In office
1920–1945
ConstituencyWexford
Personal details
Born17 September 1886 (1886-09-17)
Wexford, Ireland
Died19 July 1945(1945-07-19) (aged 58)
Political partyLabour Party
Other political
affiliations		Sinn Féin
Spouse
Katherine Bergin
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(m. 1913)​
Children6
EducationCBS Wexford

Richard Corish (17 September 1886 – 19 July 1945) was an Irish politician and trade unionist.[1]

Early and personal life

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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.

Politics

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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.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Richard Corish". Oireachtas.ie. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b Dempsey, Pauric J. "Corish, Richard". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Irish made Bicycles | Antique Bicycles Pre-1933". Thecabe.com.
  4. ^ "The forgotten labour struggle: the 1911 Wexford lockout". Historyireland.com. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b O'Leary, Cornelius (1979). Irish elections 1918–1977: parties, voters and proportional representation. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-0898-8.
  6. ^ a b "Richard Corish". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
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