By 1648 he was a preacher general and prior of Strade, and in 1650 was Provincial. He was obliged to take refuge on Inisboffin, from where he sailed to Brest in April 1652 as a delegate to the Duke of Lorraine. After the fall of Galway, his political role made it morally impossible for him to return to Ireland before the Restoration, his provincialate was spent in exile. He spent 1653 in Paris and Brussels, before residing at Louvain for the years 1653-55. He was re-appointed Provincial on 13 June 1654. He would travel to Germany at least once.
By 1664, having resigned his office, and survived a preferment controversy for "favouring Connachtmen" at Louvain, Burke was again in Ireland, where he was Prior of Athenry Abbey. In 1667 he was again Prior of Strade. A document of c. 1671 lists him among a number of episcopal candidates.
Irish Dominicans at Lisbon before 1700: a Biographical Register, Hugh Fenning, in Collectanea Hibernica, pp. 27–65 volume 42, 2000
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