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Green Arrow PhOtOs: The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini in The Face

How a woman raised on Merrion Square, Dublin attempted to assassinate the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

Irish Central, 4 MAR 2019.






On 7 April, 1926, an upper-class, 50-year-old Dublin woman shot Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist leader, in the face.


How had Violet Gibson’s life gone from the well-heeled upbringing of Merrion Square in Dublin to dying in a mental asylum having attempted to assassinate a world leader and how different the world may have been if she had succeeded?


If she had hit her target Mussolini’s reign as the “strongman” would have ended and his successes could not have emboldened Adolf Hitle. Il Duce’s legacy is still felt in Italy (his granddaughter Alessandra is a Member of the European Parliament) and in Greece, the Golden Dawn proclaim themselves fans of the fascist leader.

What’s worse is that Gibson’s attempted assassination triggered a wave of support for Il Duce which possibly helped strengthen his grip on Italy.




Mussolini walks alongside Adolf Hitler.



So What Drove Gibson to This Fateful Act?

Her upbringing was one of privilege. Her father was made 1st Baron Ashbourne and went on to serve as Lord High Chancellor of Ireland from 1885 to 1905. She grew up dividing her time between Dublin and London and at the age of 18 was a debutante in the court of Queen Victoria.

It was noted, however, that as a child Gibson was often sick with scarlet fever, pleurisy, bouts of ill-defined "hysteria" and that she had a “violent temper.”

During her younger years she also showed an interest in Christian Science and then theosophy, but at the age of 26, in 1902, she converted to Catholicism.

By 1913 Gibson had been married, to an artist, and widowed. She then moved to Paris and worked for pacifist organizations. In this year she contracted Paget's disease (an abnormal breakdown of bone tissue) and a mastectomy left her with a nine-inch scar.
She then returned to England where a surgery, for appendicitis, left her with chronic abdominal pain.


Gibson became more and more obsessed with religion during her 40s. She went on retreats, followed the Jesuit scholar John O'Fallon Pope and became fixated on the ideas of martyrdom and "mortification."

By 1922 she had had a nervous breakdown and was committed to a mental asylum having been declared insane

Two years later, along with a nurse named Mary McGrath, she travelled to Rome where she lived in a convent. By this point, she was convinced that God wanted her to kill someone as a sacrifice.

In February 1925 Gibson got hold of a gun and shot herself in the chest. Miraculously she survived.



In March 1926 Gibson’s mother passed away. By April of that year, her obsession with killing someone had refocused; it was now trained on Mussolini.

On the fateful day, she went to Palazzo del Littorio with her gun wrapped in a black veil and a rock, in case she needed to break Il Duce’s car windshield.

While “Il Duce” drove through Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, on 7 April, after leaving an assembly of the International Congress of Surgeons, to whom he had delivered a speech on the wonders of modern medicine,

Gibson jumped from the crowd and shot the leader.

Her rock was unnecessary as the leader walked among the crowds just feet from Gibson. Her first shot grazed his nose and on the second shot, the gun misfired.

The fascist leader stayed very calm and told the crowds

“Don't be afraid. This is a mere trifle."


Mussolini was only slightly injured and after having his nose bandaged he continued his parade.

Later he said that while he was ready for “a beautiful death” he did not want to die at the hands of an “old, ugly, repulsive" woman.


In custody for her crimes, Gibson said she shot Mussolini “to glorify God,” who had sent an angel to keep her steady.

The Gibson family wrote to the Italian government to apologize for her actions. Gibson was then declared a "chronic paranoiac" and returned to England and St Andrew's Hospital.
She died in 1956. There were no mourners at her funeral.

Benito Mussolini was finally killed on 28 April, 1945, during the final days of World War II. He and his mistress were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square hanging upside down from a metal girder above a service station.
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