A Bhríd, could you tell me what the - buicíní - are? (would they be anything to do with the Brídíní, by any chance?)

franc, it must be a diminutive of boc - young buck, playboy

Well as long as it doesn't have anything to do with the swimwear the young lads were wearing, you've put my mind at rest on that score.

That is probably a closer spelling alright. Boicíní.
Bigshots, upper/middle class, people with power/money ... in those days usually English speakers too.
I don't know the original source of the meaning.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Doesn't surprise me, none of my grandparents had birthday parties or celebrations when they were young. It wasn't
common in many parts of rural Ireland at the time.

EDIT: Just asked my parents, they didn't have birthdays either.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal