Gosling Games was founded in 1987; but the story goes back much further than that.

Mary grew up in West Cork, where, as a 19 year old, she opened a tea room for summer visitors overlooking the Long Strand beach near her family home, going over to London to work in the winter months. It was in London that she met Graham, and they resolved to build their future lives together back in Ireland.

While bringing up their children in West Cork, Graham and Mary ran a guest house welcoming visitors from all over the world. One of the best parts were the evenings when guests told them the amusing things that had happened on their journey that day, and asked for help in planning the next day’s itinerary. Out of that experience grew their first game, ‘Discovering Ireland’. Launched in October 1987, it became the best-selling family board game that Christmas in Ireland, and is still one of their top sellers today.

Since then Gosling Games has produced a further 12 products, including two in association with the national broadcaster Radio Telefis Eireann. The ‘Discovering’ board game concept led to a series including London & Europe. In the nineties Gosling Games developed successful games including Antics, & the Euro Game.

In the last four years Gosling Games have established a working relationship with the famous Celtic artist Courtney Davis leading to successful launches of a Memory game & Celtic Cube. Our latest product showcasing artwork by Courtney, ‘Make It – Bake It’ Cupcake Recipe Puzzle was recently featured on the RTE Late Late Toy Show to great acclaim.

Today Gosling Games is a thriving business, selling all over the world from its base in Clonakilty, West Cork.

An active mind is a happy mind, they believe. ‘We always try to invent games that will make participants think or learn something as well as have fun,’ says Mary. ‘We test every idea on our own family and friends first. Believe me, if there’s anything wrong with the prototype of a new game, we hear about it from the gang when they are all clustered around the kitchen table trying it out!

Gosling Games is a family-based business, which provides good old-fashioned fun & entertainment of the kind you thought you couldn’t find any more.