“…Shipping agents, acting either on behalf of individual ship owners, the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission, or the colonial governments themselves, remained in Ulster, as elsewhere, the visible local advocates of the benefits of emigration. 45 In 1866, for example, the Belfast and Provincial Directory listed twenty-two emigration agents, located predominantly in Belfast and Londonderry, but also in Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Dungannon, Magherafelt, Moneymore, and Portadown. Included among them was D'Arcy Sinnamon, of Portadown, who advertised his services as ''Government Agent for Queensland and New Zealand Emigration'', as well as for the Black Ball, White Star, Cunard, National, Anchor, and Black Star Lines to Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and America.…”