 Complete the following phrase:  There are also large Irish communities in some mainland European countries, notably in Spain, France and Germany. Between 1585 and 1818, over half a million Irish departed Ireland to serve in the wars on the Continent, in a constant emigration romantically styled theFlight of the Wild Geese and, before that, in the Flight of the Earls, just before the Plantation of Ulster. In the early years of the English Civil War, a French traveller remarked that the Irish are better soldiers abroad than at home. Later, Irish brigades in France and Spain would fight in the 