GoTY (Go Troll Yourself) is a minimal irc client library implemented in Go. GoTY provides a connection object that gives access to a read and a write channel, direct access to the TCP socket, as well as Dial, Connect, and Close methods. Everything else is handled outside of the library. GoTY takes strong influence from Matt Gruen's irc.go: http://code.google.com/p/go-bot/source/browse/irc.go GoTY is bundled with a small example IRC program, sic, which takes influence from the suckless.org simple irc client, sic: http://tools.suckless.org/sic Credit and thanks for the name goes to Uriel of cat-v.org: uriel.cat-v.org