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

by spencerhofmans.com · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v0.3.2 · published by com.spencerhofmans

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

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4 tools: 4 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

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

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

4 tools

Only reads 4Claude Code: allow
  • get_guideReturn the current published text of one of Spencer Hofmans' historical companion guides.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_guide" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
  • get_historical_figureFind passages about a named historical figure in Spencer Hofmans' Irish history guides.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_historical_figure" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
  • get_sourcesReturn the Sources and Further Reading section from one of Spencer Hofmans' historical companion guides.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_sources" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
  • search_historySearch Spencer Hofmans' published historical research and companion guides for factual historical material.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_history" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 0.3.2. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

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

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__irish-history__search_history",
      "mcp__irish-history__get_guide",
      "mcp__irish-history__get_historical_figure",
      "mcp__irish-history__get_sources"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as irish-history. Review it before you use it.