Career
In 1595 there was a call for Jesuits in Ireland, which had been deprived of them for ten years. With Father Archer he refounded the mission there. He laughed at his capture in 1600.
"Now", he said, "my adversaries cannot say that they do not know where to find me", and he would shout challenges from his prison window at every passing parson.
Banished in 1604, he visited Spain, Rome, and Flanders, 1611-1620. At the outbreak of the Thirty Years War in 1620, he served as chaplain to the Irish soldiers in the imperial army, and published a diary of his experiences.
He probably returned to Flanders in 1621 and in 1630 went back to Ireland where he continued to work until the outbreak of the Civil War (1640). He was under sentence of death, from which he escaped in the winter of 1641 to the Wicklow Mountains, and died, probably, in Kilkenny.
