Desc: Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini: Directed by Barrie Dowdall, Kevin de la Isla O'Neill. With Olwen Fouéré, Padraig Cullen, Michael Heavey, Siobhan Lynam. The true and forgotten story of Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, who shot fascist dictator Benito Mussolini at point-blank range as she faced a Fascist mob in Rome in 1926.