Fine Art & AntiquesGoing, going, gone: the top art and furniture sales of 2019By Elizabeth Birdthistle
An Irish DiarySuffer Little Childer – Frank McNally on one of the year’s most inauspicious datesBy Frank McNally
PoliticsHaughey's government concerned RUC encouraging loyalist gunmen to target lawyersBy Harry McGee
OpinionFintan O’Toole: 2019 was a bit like Game of Thrones – lots of action, no climaxBy Fintan O’Toole
PoliticsState papers: Thatcher opposed German reunification after collapse of Berlin WallBy Harry McGee
Crime & LawLyra McKee death: Police examining ‘significant amount’ of video evidenceBy Freya McClements
PoliticsTory party adviser ‘very struck’ by rapport between Margaret Thatcher and Charles HaugheyBy Brian Hutton
EducationFees for private schools jump as enrolments return to boom-time highBy Carl O'Brien and Jenna Clarke-Molloy
MusicPutting 2019 to bed with a bang: The best end-of-year rock and pop gigsBy Louise Bruton and Tony Clayton-Lea
ArtHow an Irish architect helped France rediscover one of its finest female designersBy Deirdre McQuillan
BooksThe Americanisation of Ireland: Our relationship with America was not all one wayBy Enda Delaney