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

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.