Anger as American Irish Historical Society to sell 5th Avenue HQ

Liam Neeson is among a group of Irish actors, artists and writers to call for the sale of the landmark building to be stopped.

The Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee has written to Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and to the board of the American Irish Historical Society to express its disappointment at its decision to sell its headquarters on 5th Avenue in New York.

The landmark building was put up for sale last month at a price of $52m, prompting calls for the sale to be stopped by Irish artists, actors and writers including Liam Neeson, Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann. The group wrote to the attorney general of New York Letitia James asking her to stop the sale.