There is a statue commemorating his bravery in Fitzgerald Park in Cork City where he was born, but many Cork residents today have no idea who he was. Yet history students in Venezuela know him as one of the most trusted aides of Simon Bolivar, the liberator of what is today Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Daniel Florence (Florencio) O'Leary was born in 1801, the son of Jer…