A real shot at changing modern history in the play 'Violet Gibson: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini'

Alice Barry’s play tells the true story of an Irish woman who tried to kill Mussolini, writes Colette Sheridan

CORK-BASED playwright and actor Alice Barry has delved into the life and psyche of an Irish aristocrat for her one-woman play, Violet Gibson: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini.

Gibson, whose father served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1885-1905, had a privileged upbringing in Merrion Square in Dublin and spent time in London where, at the age of 18, she was a debutante in the court of Queen Victoria.