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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 10 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

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

Uptime history 61 hours of history · worst hour 25%
61 hours agonow
91.2%
Uptime 24h
83 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
248 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 94.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add irish-history --transport http https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "irish-history": {
      "url": "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
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "irish-history": {
      "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

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 351 ms 10 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 83 of 91 checks got a reply (91.2%), average response time 248 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 with the file path 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 248 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.