Richard Corish (17 September 1886 – 19 July 1945) was an Irish politician and trade unionist.[1]
Richard Corish | |
|---|---|
 | |
| 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 |
Early and personal life edit
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 edit
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 edit
References edit
- ^ "Richard Corish". Oireachtas.ie. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
- ^ a b Dempsey, Pauric J. "Corish, Richard". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Irish made Bicycles | Antique Bicycles Pre-1933". Thecabe.com.
- ^ "The forgotten labour struggle: the 1911 Wexford lockout". Historyireland.com. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ a b O'Leary, Cornelius (1979). Irish elections 1918–1977: parties, voters and proportional representation. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-0898-8.
- ^ a b "Richard Corish". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
External links edit
- . . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource.