Oh, that was fun. It is freezing cold, and I just spent more time than I should admit fiddling with IRC clients.
Yes, on DALnet (irc.dal.net) there is a channel named #jizzelbin which I created.
IRC is, IMHO, completely useless without using something called an IRC Bouncer, which permits the history of chats to be visible during times one is not online.
There are plenty of ways to set this combination up, but it's pretty hacker-ish, and probably not something the average person would want to do.
However, on the Android phone, a good client program is AndroIRC (among others, but I like that the best, in addition to Weechat in a TerMux session).
On Linux I like Weechat and, for a very simple GUI program, HexChat.
I'm thinking IRC is tedious and useless, unless you're actively online most of the time, or need up-to-the minute chat during some prescribed interval of the day.
No clue what people are actually chatting about in the bigger channels, but I'm pretty sure it's either disgusting or illegal, or else very boring.