5. Séamus Ennis was raised with music. His father, James, was a prize-winning piper and his mother, Mary McCabe, was a fiddle player. Which of the towns surrounding Dublin has renamed one the main thoroughfares to 'Séamus Ennis Road'?
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Answer:
Finglas
Séamus was born on May 5, 1919, in Jamestown, Finglas. His father had purchased his pipes in 1908 from a London pawn shop, and in 1912 won second place in a competition on the uilleann pipes while winning first place on the warpipes.
Séamus did not begin learning the uilleann pipes until he was thirteen. His father showed him how to read music from Francis O'Neill's book and provided some help with the "difficult bits".
A full set of uilleann pipes consists of bag, bellows, chanter, drones, and regulators. Both elbows are used, one to pump air into the instrument and the other to control the airflow to the chanter.