I have a griddle for making oat cakes - my poor dear mother would be most distressed to think that I was cooking Irish food - she was of Irish extraction - the extraction being the operative word there, as she was not proud of her Irish roots.

She knew very well how to make soda bread and the like, for she did make it once when the bread makers were on strike, but nothing would have induced her to cook Irish dishes on a regular basis.

She called soda bread 'bread cake', presumably as it is made from normal flour like a cake rather than hard flour as used for yeasted bread.