The Irishwoman who shot Mussolini

The World

Violet Gibson, from Dublin, Ireland, never made it into the history books. But she did come very close to changing the course of 20th-century Europe. She’s the Irishwoman you’ve probably never heard of who actually shot Benito Mussolini in 1926. Nearly a century later, the Irish capital is going to honor her. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry has her story.  

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