I can confirm Jacob Winther's diagnosis: rm /usr/lib/irssi/modules/libfe_silc.so
was sufficient for me to avoid getting the duplicated messages.
I have not yet tried the modification of the Makefile to see if that
builds acceptable packages.
Thanks for the heads-up, Jacob!
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