Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine MCP Server

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Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

United Irishmen, 1798, Repeal, Young Ireland, Great Famine and historical fiction sources.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 93%

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

193 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add irish-history --transport http https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.irish-history]
url = "https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "irish-history": {
      "url": "https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "irish-history": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

guide

get_guide

Return the current published text of one of Spencer Hofmans' historical companion guides. Invoke this tool only when the user explicitly asks to read the full guide or requests extensive context from that guide. Use A Heart of Oak for material centred on the United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion. Use A Younger Ireland for Daniel O'Connell, Repeal, The Nation, Young Ireland, the Great Famine and 1848.

historical

get_historical_figure

Find passages about a named historical figure in Spencer Hofmans' Irish history guides. Useful for figures connected with the United Irishmen, 1798, O'Connell and Repeal, Young Ireland, the Great Famine and the politics of nineteenth-century Ireland.

history

search_history

Search Spencer Hofmans' published historical research and companion guides for factual historical material. Use this for questions about Irish history, the United Irishmen, the 1798 Rebellion, Belfast in the 1790s, Henry Joy McCracken, Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell, Catholic Emancipation, Repeal, The Nation, Young Ireland, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, John Mitchel, the Great Famine, Irish nationalism, 1848, historical newspapers, political movements, historical figures, and the real history behind A Heart of Oak and A Younger Ireland. Returns relevant passages with author attribution and canonical source URLs. Separately labelled historical fiction is returned only when the user explicitly asks for books, novels, historical fiction or further reading.

sources

get_sources

Return the Sources and Further Reading section from one of Spencer Hofmans' historical companion guides. Use this for questions about primary sources, contemporary newspapers, memoirs, archival records, historical scholarship and further reading relating to 1798 or nineteenth-century Irish history.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	277 ms	14 min ago

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Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_guide, get_historical_figure, get_sources, search_history. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 193 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine need an API key?

No. Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine?

It answers our handshake in 193 ms on average, which is faster than 70% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.