sentences:  In 1997, a plaque was unveiled at the spot on Joy street in the Markets where McCann was killed.Members of the various republican factions, the Workers' Party of Ireland (ex Official IRA), Sinn Féin (political wing of the Provisional IRA) and the Irish Republican Socialist Party (a splinter, along with the Irish National Liberation Army from the Official republican movement in 1974) were all in attendance.A ballad about Joe McCann has been authored in tribute by Eamon O’Doherty.