How to use IRC proxy, w/o MultiProxy.org

How would I go about using a proxy to get on IRC? I thought I knew but none seem to work, of course it can jsut be the proxy itself, anyway right now I am trying ALT + O (options), firewall, and putting "server" and "socks5", then the hostname and port, in my case, 23, and connecting, I get a unable to connect to fireWall error for some and time out for others. am I doing anything wrong? someone told me I had to do /server proxy port then go from there.

i'm not sure if this is right at all, but shouldn't the port for irc be 1080?

I dont think the port matters, I do know that I used to use Multiproxy to get on IRC with this proxy list on port 8088, and that 8080 is for web, but how do I use IRC proxy's, are proxies different from BNC's?