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July 27

Published in Event Listings

Wed 2pm
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle.
Film screening: After ’16 (short films).

On this Day

1944 Eoin O’Duffy (52), first commissioner of the Garda Síochána (1922–33) and Blueshirt leader, died.
1938 The Munich Agreement was signed by Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. In return for a guarantee that it would be his last territorial demand in Europe, it allowed Hitler to annex Sudetenland, the mainly German-speaking portions of Czechoslovakia.
1760 Maria Gunning (27), countess of Coventry, died from cosmetic poisoning. She and her sister Elizabeth were celebrated beauties who married into the British aristocracy.