History is a messenger of memory. Its messages include the unique academic syllabus of St Patrick College in Maynooth, Ireland, which was at the origin of Maynooth University founded in 1997. It is a lasting heritage on which universities of the third millennium should rely to build they future.
To avert the risk of sinking into the darkness at the bottom of the well of specialization, transculturation and anti-discipline play a major role. A term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, transculturation is a network of reciprocal exchange of cultural influences that overlap each other.
