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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