Docs for our IRC system are all here: https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/blob/master/IRC.md
There are also plenty of threads here on the forums for the basics and for frameworks that can help with connecting to IRC. 
Docs for our IRC system are all here: https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/blob/master/IRC.md
There are also plenty of threads here on the forums for the basics and for frameworks that can help with connecting to IRC.