You can read the overview at Wiki and the protocol definition RFC 1459 for starters. Then you must learn socket programming that enables you to connect, send and receive messages to IRC servers. The messages are lengths of strings you have to parse and interpret. It's really a lot of reading and work before you get anywhere with IRC. There is some discussion in this thread http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/showthread.php?t=9231 attached to post 20 is some code start.
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