Richard Corish
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 (1886-09-17) Wexford, Ireland |
Died | 19 July 1945(1945-07-19) (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]
Early and personal life
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
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
References
- ^ "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
- "Corish, Alderman Richard" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 47 – via Wikisource.
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Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||||||
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2nd | 1921 | Richard Corish (SF) | James Ryan (SF) | Séamus Doyle (SF) | Seán Etchingham (SF) | 4 seats 1921–1923 | |||||||
3rd | 1922 | Richard Corish (Lab) | Daniel O'Callaghan (Lab) | Séamus Doyle (AT-SF) | Michael Doyle (FP) | ||||||||
4th | 1923 | James Ryan (Rep) | Robert Lambert (Rep) | Osmond Esmonde (CnaG) | |||||||||
5th | 1927 (Jun) | James Ryan (FF) | James Shannon (Lab) | John Keating (NL) | |||||||||
6th | 1927 (Sep) | Denis Allen (FF) | Michael Jordan (FP) | Osmond Esmonde (CnaG) | |||||||||
7th | 1932 | John Keating (CnaG) | |||||||||||
8th | 1933 | Patrick Kehoe (FF) | |||||||||||
1936 by-election | Denis Allen (FF) | ||||||||||||
9th | 1937 | John Keating (FG) | John Esmonde (FG) | ||||||||||
10th | 1938 | ||||||||||||
11th | 1943 | John O'Leary (Lab) | |||||||||||
12th | 1944 | John O'Leary (NLP) | John Keating (FG) | ||||||||||
1945 by-election | Brendan Corish (Lab) | ||||||||||||
13th | 1948 | John Esmonde (FG) | |||||||||||
14th | 1951 | John O'Leary (Lab) | Anthony Esmonde (FG) | ||||||||||
15th | 1954 | ||||||||||||
16th | 1957 | Seán Browne (FF) | |||||||||||
17th | 1961 | Lorcan Allen (FF) | 4 seats 1961–1981 | ||||||||||
18th | 1965 | James Kennedy (FF) | |||||||||||
19th | 1969 | Seán Browne (FF) | |||||||||||
20th | 1973 | John Esmonde (FG) | |||||||||||
21st | 1977 | Michael D'Arcy (FG) | |||||||||||
22nd | 1981 | Ivan Yates (FG) | Hugh Byrne (FF) | ||||||||||
23rd | 1982 (Feb) | Seán Browne (FF) | |||||||||||
24th | 1982 (Nov) | Avril Doyle (FG) | John Browne (FF) | ||||||||||
25th | 1987 | Brendan Howlin (Lab) | |||||||||||
26th | 1989 | Michael D'Arcy (FG) | Séamus Cullimore (FF) | ||||||||||
27th | 1992 | Avril Doyle (FG) | Hugh Byrne (FF) | ||||||||||
28th | 1997 | Michael D'Arcy (FG) | |||||||||||
29th | 2002 | Paul Kehoe (FG) | Liam Twomey (Ind) | Tony Dempsey (FF) | |||||||||
30th | 2007 | Michael W. D'Arcy (FG) | Seán Connick (FF) | ||||||||||
31st | 2011 | Liam Twomey (FG) | Mick Wallace (Ind) | ||||||||||
32nd | 2016 | Michael W. D'Arcy (FG) | James Browne (FF) | Mick Wallace (I4C) | |||||||||
2019 by-election | Malcolm Byrne (FF) | ||||||||||||
33rd | 2020 | Johnny Mythen (SF) | Verona Murphy (Ind) |