Email Record: Will supporting a recruiter save Ireland from conscription? What Mr. J.F.O'Hanlon said in 1914. From the "Anglo-Celt" Oct. 10th, 1914. There never was a war in the history of the world in which it was more necessary that in the present war for the Irish people to fight against tyranny. Some capital is being made out of the fact that our leader, Mr. Redmond, has asked the Irish people, those of them who are free to do so, to volunteer for the Front..."