in the Western Highlands". Flora MacNeil then performed the Waulking song Cò siod thall air stràid na h-eala? ("Who is That Yonder on the Swan Road?"). MacNeil then performed the Gaelic lament, Mo nighean donn bhòidheach ("My Lovely Brown-Haired Girl"). Towards the end of the Ceilidh, master of ceremonies Hamish Henderson announced that Calum Johnston would be performing Roderick Morison's Òran do MhacLeoid Dhunbheagain ("A Song to MacLeod of Dunvegan"). The song had been composed as a rebuke to Norman MacLeod, 22nd Chief of Clan MacLeod, for not fulfilling, "the obligations of his office". Instead of patronizing the Bards and holding feasts at Dunvegan Castle for his clansmen, the Chief had become an absentee landlord in London, who, "spent his money on foppish clothes". Instead, Morison urged the Chief in vain to emulate his predecessors. Henderson said of the song, "it's one of the great songs in the Gaelic tongue, and the poetic concept in it is very great. The poet says that he left the castle, and he found on the slopes of the mountain the echo of past mirth, the echo of his own singing. And he then has a conversation with the echo about the fate of the House of MacLeod." In a further declaration of the Pro-Soviet sympathies of the organizers, Henderson ended the Ceilidh by singing a Scots language tribute, set to the tune of Scotland the Brave, to John Maclean, a major figure in the Red Clydeside era, whom the text inaccurately claimed as the fiere, or comrade, of Vladimir Lenin and the "mate" of Karl Liebknecht. Henderson then concluded the Ceilidh by singing what was then Scotland's de facto national anthem, Scots Wha Hae by Robert Burns. Until 1954, the Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidhs were an annual event. Eventually, however, the fact that Henderson and many other board members and organizers were members of the Communist Party of Great Britain caused the Ceilidhs to lose the backing and involvement of all members of both the Labour Party and the Scottish Congress of Trade Unions. In 1975, Peter Kennedy acknowledged MacNeil as the source for each of the 24 Scottish Gaelic songs which appeared in his volume Folksongs of Britain and Ireland. Flora MacNeil recorded two albums, Craobh nan Ubhal in 1976 (reissued in 1993) and Orain Floraidh in 2000. While performing in 2000 at the annual Christmas Island Ceilidh in Cape Breton, Nova