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

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

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Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
95%
Schema completeness
100%
Naming quality
100%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~1,431Tokens (tool definitions)
~2.9 KBTypical response size
Moderate attention impact (1.12% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

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

Remote endpoints

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

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (4)

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🟢search_history(query, limit)

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.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Historical person, event, movement, place, publication, period, or question to search for."
    },
    "limit": {
      "default": 5,
      "description": "Maximum number of relevant passages to return.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 10
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "result_count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "guide": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "book": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "passage": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "section": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "source_url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "author": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "source_type": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "guide",
          "book",
          "passage",
          "section",
          "source_url",
          "author",
          "source_type"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    },
    "related_historical_fiction": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "author": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "relationship": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "historical_guide_url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "note": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "title",
          "author",
          "relationship",
          "historical_guide_url",
          "note"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    },
    "attribution": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "error": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query",
    "result_count",
    "results",
    "related_historical_fiction",
    "attribution"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false
}
🟢get_guide(book)

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.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "book": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "A Heart of Oak",
        "A Younger Ireland"
      ],
      "description": "Choose the novel whose historical companion guide should be returned."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "book"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "title": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "book": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "author": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source_url": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source_type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "text": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "error": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "title",
    "book",
    "author",
    "source_url",
    "source_type",
    "text"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false
}
🟢get_historical_figure(name)

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.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Full or commonly used name of the historical figure, for example Henry Joy McCracken, Daniel O'Connell or Thomas Davis."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "found": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "guide": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "section": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "passage": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "source_url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "author": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "name",
          "guide",
          "section",
          "passage",
          "source_url",
          "author"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    },
    "error": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name",
    "found",
    "results"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false
}
🟢get_sources(book)

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.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "book": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "A Heart of Oak",
        "A Younger Ireland"
      ],
      "description": "Choose which historical companion guide's bibliography and source section to return."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "book"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "book": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "author": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source_url": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "sources": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "related_historical_fiction": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "author": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "relationship": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "historical_guide_url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "note": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "title",
          "author",
          "relationship",
          "historical_guide_url",
          "note"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    },
    "error": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "book",
    "author",
    "source_url",
    "sources",
    "related_historical_fiction"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Recommended Prompts

fetch_info
Fetch [information type] using Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine
Expected tools: get_guide
search_research
Search for information about [topic] using Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine
Expected tools: search_history
find_specific
Find [specific item] using Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine
Expected tools: search_history
retrieve_data
Get details about [item] from Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine
Expected tools: get_guide
research_workflow
Search for [topic], then get detailed information about the top results using Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine
Expected tools: search_historyget_guide

Recorded Call Examples

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Prompt: Example call to get_sources
Tool: get_sources
Input Parameters
{
  "book": "example-1"
}
Output Result
{
  "result": {
    "content": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Input validation error: Invalid arguments for tool get_sources: book: Invalid option: expected one of \"A Heart of Oak\"|\"A Younger Ireland\""
      }
    ],
    "isError": true
  },
  "durationMs": 28
}
Duration: 28ms

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