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Daniel Florence O'Leary ( ga, Dónall Fínín Ó Laoghaire; 14 February 1801 – 24 February 1854) was a military general and aide-de-camp under
Unlike many of the Irish who fought for Simon Bolívar in his many campaigns to win South American independence, O'Leary had not served in the 
Short biography on O'Leary
from the Society for Irish Latin American Studies
Biography
from Journal 2001 of the historical society Ballingeary Cumann Staire *Moisés Enrique Rodrígue
"Under Three Flags The Diplomatic Career of Daniel Florence O'Leary"
in ''Irish Migration Studies in Latin America'' 7:1 (March 2009), pp. 85–92 {{DEFAULTSORT:Oleary, Daniel Florence 1800s births 1854 deaths Irish generals People of the Venezuelan War of Independence Irish emigrants to Venezuela 19th-century Venezuelan writers People from County Cork Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Colombia Burials at the National Pantheon of Venezuela
Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and B ...
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Life
O'Leary was born inCork
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, Ireland; his father was Jeremiah O'Leary, a butter merchant. In 1817, Daniel O'Leary emigrated to South America.
Unlike many of the Irish who fought for Simon Bolívar in his many campaigns to win South American independence, O'Leary had not served in the Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fre ...
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In 1827 he married Soledad Soublette, the younger sister of General Carlos Soublette
Carlos Valentín José de la Soledad Antonio del Sacramento de Soublette y Jerez de Aristeguieta (15 December 1789 – 11 February 1870) was the president of Venezuela
The president of Venezuela ( es, Presidente de Venezuela), officially ...
, with whom he had nine children.
After Bolívar's death in 1830, O'Leary disobeyed orders to burn the general's personal documents. He spent much of the rest of his life organizing them, along with writing his own very extensive memoirs
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiog ...
(spanning thirty-four volumes) of his time fighting in the revolutionary wars with Bolívar. He died in Bogotá, Colombia. He is buried in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.
A bust and plaque honouring O'Leary were presented by the Venezuelan Government to the people of Cork and unveiled on 12 May 2010 by the Venezuelan Ambassador to Ireland, Samuel Moncada.
See also
* Irish military diasporaReferences
External links
Short biography on O'Leary
from the Society for Irish Latin American Studies
Biography
from Journal 2001 of the historical society Ballingeary Cumann Staire *Moisés Enrique Rodrígue
"Under Three Flags The Diplomatic Career of Daniel Florence O'Leary"
in ''Irish Migration Studies in Latin America'' 7:1 (March 2009), pp. 85–92 {{DEFAULTSORT:Oleary, Daniel Florence 1800s births 1854 deaths Irish generals People of the Venezuelan War of Independence Irish emigrants to Venezuela 19th-century Venezuelan writers People from County Cork Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Colombia Burials at the National Pantheon of Venezuela