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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini | Cork News
An Irish aristocrat with a troubled mind, Violet Gibson, made history in 1926 by attempting to assassinate Mussolini—her bullet grazed his nose, the gun jammed, and chaos erupted. Despite the failed attack, Mussolini turned it into propaganda, boosting his power. Gibson, released at his request and sent back to England, spent her final decades in a psychiatric hospital. Now, Cork’s Alice Barry brings her dramatic, haunting story to life in a gripping one-woman show, “Violet Gibson: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini,” running at the Cork Arts Theatre this July. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a…
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