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.