# Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great Famine (remote · spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev)

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

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-28

## Components

- remote · `spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-spencerhofmans-irish-history/spencer-history-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-spencerhofmans-irish-history/spencer-history-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.3.2`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-28.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 72/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 773 tokens (~193/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… MCP server?

Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… is a hosted endpoint at https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

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

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-spencerhofmans-irish-history": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-spencerhofmans-irish-history --url 'https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-spencerhofmans-irish-history:
    url: "https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-spencerhofmans-irish-history": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-spencerhofmans-irish-history -t streamable-http -u 'https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-spencerhofmans-irish-history": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-28 (score 70, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-25 (score 69, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-23 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-21 (score 67, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “get_guide” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_history” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 0.3.4 → 0.4.2
- [cosmetic] Tool “get_guide” changed its title: Read an Irish History Guide → Read Full Irish History Guide

### 2026-09-20 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `search_history` (~203 tokens)

Search Irish 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.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Maximum number of relevant passages to return.
- `query` (string, required): Historical person, event, movement, place, publication, period, or question to search for.

Output parameters:

- `attribution` (string)
- `error` (string)
- `query` (string)
- `related_historical_fiction` (array)
- `result_count` (integer)
- `results` (array)

### `get_guide` (~114 tokens)

Read Full Irish History 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.

Input parameters:

- `book` (string, required): Choose the novel whose historical companion guide should be returned.

Output parameters:

- `author` (string)
- `book` (string)
- `error` (string)
- `source_type` (string)
- `source_url` (string)
- `text` (string)
- `title` (string)

### `get_historical_figure` (~96 tokens)

Find an Irish 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.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): Full or commonly used name of the historical figure, for example Henry Joy McCracken, Daniel O'Connell or Thomas Davis.

Output parameters:

- `error` (string)
- `found` (boolean)
- `name` (string)
- `results` (array)

### `get_sources` (~78 tokens)

Irish History Sources and Further Reading

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 parameters:

- `book` (string, required): Choose which historical companion guide's bibliography and source section to return.

Output parameters:

- `author` (string)
- `book` (string)
- `error` (string)
- `related_historical_fiction` (array)
- `source_url` (string)
- `sources` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-spencerhofmans-irish-history/spencer-history-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-28: 70
- 2026-09-27: 69
- 2026-09-26: 69
- 2026-09-25: 69
- 2026-09-24: 68
- 2026-09-23: 68
- 2026-09-22: 67
- 2026-09-21: 67
- 2026-09-20: 66

## Common questions

### What is the Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… MCP server?

Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.spencerhofmans/irish-history. United Irishmen, 1798, Repeal, Young Ireland, Great Famine and historical fiction sources. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp).

### Is the Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… MCP server safe to use?

Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… MCP server expose?

Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… exposes 4 tools: search_history, get_guide, get_historical_figure, get_sources. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 491 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… MCP server still maintained?

Irish History: 1798, O'Connell, Young Ireland & the Great… is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 28 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://spencer-history-mcp.spencerhofmans.workers.dev/mcp
- Website: https://spencerhofmans.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-spencerhofmans-irish-history/spencer-history-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-spencerhofmans-irish-history/spencer-history-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-spencerhofmans-irish-history/spencer-history-mcp