He saw himself as defending the Irish Gaels from the slanders of Anglocentric writers such as William Camden, Richard Stanihurst and Thomas Carve.
The area he lived in had not long ago been an independent Gaelic kingdom known as Thomond and he came from a family of ollamh.
Around the year 1650, Bruodin fled to Bohemia where he joined the Czech Franciscan community at Olomouc, where he was custos from 1663.
[2] As a scholar Bruodin taught first in the Irish Franciscan College in Prague, later in other Czech monasteries as a lecturer of philosophy (1656-1657).
[4] The author Antonius Prodinus has been taken to be Bruodin; he wrote Descriptio Regni Hiberniæ, Sanctorum Insulæ, et de prima origine miseriarum & motuum in Anglia, Scotia, et Hibernia, regnante Carolo primo rege, printed at Rome, 1721, under the editorship of the exiled son of Phelim O'Neill.