Legate, Cardinal Lauri. 23 June – 2,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the Phoenix Park. 24 June – 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park. 26 June – almost a million worshippers attend Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress. 30 June – the third Tailteann Games open in Croke Park, Dublin. 1 August – at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Bob Tisdall wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr. Pat O'Callaghan, wins gold in the hammer-throwing event. 18 August – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison takes off from Portmarnock Strand to become the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight. 23 August – Cumann na nGaedheal leader W. T. Cosgrave criticises Fianna Fáil's policy of retaining the land annuities. 26 September – Éamon de Valera gives his inaugural speech as President of the League of Nations. He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action. 9 October – at a Cumann na nGaedheal meeting in County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as General Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd. 19 October – unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O'Kelly. October – Anglo-Irish Trade War begins. 16 November – the Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont. 22 November – the new Northern Ireland Parliament building at Stormont is officially opened. 26 November – Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds James McNeill as Governor-General of the Irish Free State. Arts and literature 7 March – Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London. Austin Clarke's first novel, The Bright Temptation: a romance, is prohibited in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board. Francis Stuart's novels Pigeon Irish and The Coloured Dome. W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham and publishes Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems. Seán Ó Faoláin publishes his first collection, Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories, in London. Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters primarily to oppose the Censorship of Publications Board. The first sound film made in Ireland, The Voice of Ireland, is directed