JP O’ Malley

1 week ago | independent.ie | JP O’ Malley

From bullied teen with an absent father to Italy’s first female PM: Giorgia Meloni’s rise to right-wing politics in her own wordsAutobiographyGiorgia Meloni delivering her famous 'I am Giorgia' speech at a rally in Rome in October 2019. Photo: GettyIn New York’s Central Park there is a memorial to John Lennon that features a mosaic of stones with the word “Imagine” engraved in the centre. The public artwork remembering the Beatles’s most famous lyric was donated by the city of Naples.

2 months ago | independent.ie | JP O’ Malley

HistoryDuring the late 1980s a birth certificate was issued to a Montreal woman named Tracey Lee Ann Foley. Canadian authorities believed the request had come from Foley herself. In fact, Foley died of meningitis as an infant in the autumn of 1962. Two decades later, Elena Vavilova brought Foley back to life. Born and raised in Tomsk, Siberia, Elena was an “illegal”: a deep-cover spy, trained by the Soviet intelligence service, the KGB.

2 months ago | theage.com.au | JP O’ Malley |Amanda Knox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In September 2007, Amanda Knox was just another American abroad. Then a 20-year-old student, Knox arrived from Seattle to study Italian in Perugia, a small city north of Rome. Two months later, she found herself in the city’s police station. November 6, 2007, was the fourth night of questioning.

Sep 5, 2024 | independent.ie | JP O’ Malley

Non-fictionLast December Donald Trump made global headlines while ranting and raving about how American schools and hospitals were full of immigrants “who don’t speak English”. Oh, the irony. Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich, was a German immigrant who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City in October 1885. But “Friedrich vowed to embrace every last opportunity the New Word might deliver,” writes Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred C Trump III, in All in the Family.

Aug 28, 2024 | independent.ie | JP O’ Malley

HistoryThe Allied powers first publicly stated they were going to punish Nazi war criminals in the winter of 1942. The following October, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin all signed the Moscow Declaration of German Atrocities. This document stated that when an armistice was finally reached in World War II, those Germans deemed responsible for atrocities would be sent back to where they had committed their respective crimes and punished according to the laws of that particular nation.