Irssi is a modular text mode chat client. It comes with IRC support built in.
Please note that because of the changes to Docker Automated Builds many Docker images are now outdated and a manual build is required and recommended.
podman build --rm -t konstruktoid/irssi -f Dockerfile .
podman run --read-only --cap-drop=all -ti konstruktoid/irssi
/server add -auto -ssl -network freenode irc.freenode.net 6697./apparmor/ contains apparmor profile and toml file, --security-opt="apparmor:docker-irssi"