Brendan Corish

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Brendan Corish ( Irish Breandán Mac Fheorais ; born November 19, 1918 , † February 17, 1990 ) was an Irish politician of the Irish Labor Party and Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ).

Life

Corish was elected to the 12th Dáil Éireann on December 4, 1945 in a by-election in the Wexford constituency. In the following elections he was always able to defend his mandate. In June 1954 he became Minister for Social Welfare for the first time in the coalition government led by Prime Minister John A. Costello ( Fine Gael ) and held this office until the coalition was defeated by the Fianna Fáil in March 1957.

In 1960 he was elected to succeed William Norton as chairman of the Irish Labor Party . As such, he introduced increasingly socialist approaches within the party in the years that followed . In the elections for Dáil Éireann in 1961 and 1965 , his party was able to increase its mandate from 10 to 16 and then finally to 22.

However, the Labor Party's first participation in government did not come about until the 1973 elections . After Fine Gael and the Labor Party had each had their own opposition policies since 1957, they now realized that the only way to replace Fianna Fáil in government was to act together. Shortly after the announcement of the new elections, both parties agreed to campaign together on the points that united them. The so-called "National Coalition" was the first possible alternative government in years.

In this government under Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave Corish was on March 14, 1973 Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ), Minister of Health and again Minister of Social Welfare.

When this National Coalition experienced the biggest defeat of a government in Irish history in the 1977 elections and lost 13 of its 73 seats, Corish resigned as chairman of the Labor Party and was replaced as such by the previous Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs, Frank Cluskey . In the elections of the 23rd Dáil in February 1982 he did not run again.

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SURNAME Corish, Brendan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mac Fheorais, Breandan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish Labor Party politician and Deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste)
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1918
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1990