John Ranelagh

John O' Beirne Ranelagh is a television executive, producer, and author of history and current politics. Born to an Irish father, James O' Beirne Ranelagh, who was in the IRA in 1916 and later fought on the Republican side in the 1922- 24 Civil War, and an American mother, Elaine Lambert Lewis, who became the noted author E. L. Ranelagh, John Ranelagh was born in New York and moved to rural Ireland following his parents' 1946 marriage. He read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford, and later obtained a Ph.D. at Eliot College, University of Kent. Ranelagh has written several books, and was creat