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.

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