Over 76,000 images, digitised from original negatives and positives as well as images shot digitally.
Context
Creator(s): RTÉ Guide photographers
Administrative History ↴
The RTÉ Guide is a television and radio listings magazine in Ireland published by RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Ltd, a subsidiary of Raidió Teilifís Éireann. The RTÉ Guide was first published on 1 December 1961 as the RTV Guide and changed its name to its current title in 1966. The magazine has employed photographers to supply images from its beginning and the collection contains images taken by the following photographers: Roy Bedell, John Cooney, Eve Holmes, Miles Randall, Gordon Standing.
Archival History ↴
The collection was transferred to the Stills Library from the RTÉ Guide.
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
Official Transfer
Content & Structure
Scope & Content: RTÉ Guide photographers ↴
This collection is comprised of shots taken by photographers working for the ‘RTÉ Guide’ from 1962 to the present date. The collection features images from television and radio programmes, including guests, presenters and the staff involved in the production of light entertainment, drama, music and current affairs output. Iconic RTÉ Television drama series such as ‘Tolka Row’ and ‘The Riordans’ are well-represented, as are entertainment shows featuring contemporary singers and musicians. Current shots include celebrities, cookery, health, fashion and beauty.
Appraisal Destruction ↴
Permanent Retention
Accruals ↴
Additional contemporary images are accrued regularly
Arrangement ↴
The collection is held in a linear arrangement in reference number order.
Conditions of Access & Use
Access Conditions
All fully catalogued images in the RTÉ Guide Collection are available to view online with the RTÉ watermark. Cataloguing is ongoing and newly catalogued images are uploaded to the website on a weekly basis. Unwatermarked images, whether high or low resolution, are only issued via Stills Library staff.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Images can be reproduced with permission only and according to rate card published on RTÉ Stills Library Online. An online ordering system exists.
Creation Dates
1962-present
Extent Medium
Over 76,000 images, digitised from original negatives and positives as well as images shot digitally.
Characteristics Tech Req
Negatives digitised pre-2005 are high resolution jpegs, 18MB in size with a pixel dimension of 2048 x 3072. Those digitised from 2005 onwards are uncompressed TIFF files. They are 28MB in size with a pixel dimension of 2048 x 3072.
Positives were digitised as uncompressed TIFF files. They are 28MB in size with a pixel dimension of 2048 x 3072.
Images shot digitally vary in size. They may be: 40.5MB with a pixel dimension of 3077 x 4199; 47.5M with a pixel dimension of 3328 x 4994 pixels or 60.2MB with a pixel dimension of 5616 x 3744
Finding Aids
An item level catalogue is available to search online at: https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/collections.html
Archive Web Link →
Allied Materials
Publication Note
‘Off Camera: images from the early years of RTÉ television’, introduced by Gay Byrne (Poolbeg Press, 2004)
Descriptive Control Area
Archivist Note
Emma Keogh, March 2014
Rules/Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottowa: International Council on Archives, 2000. National Council on Archives: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names. Chippenham: National Council on Archives, 1997.
